Saliva

Definition: Saliva

Saliva

Noun

1. A clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches.

Date "saliva" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Saliva \Sa*li"va\, noun. [Latin expression; compare to Greek]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Saliva

Domain	Definitions
Health	The clear, viscous fluid secreted by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth. It contains mucins, water, organic salts, and ptylin. (references)
Medicine	The mixed secretions of the salivary glands and of the mucous membrane of the mouth. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Saliva

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In animals, saliva is produced in and secreted from the salivary glands. It is a fluid containing:

water
electrolytes
mucus
and various enzymes. In human saliva, amylase starts the digestion of starch before the food is even swallowed.

see also digestive system

A common misconception is that saliva contained in the mouth has natural disinfectants, which leads people to believe it is beneficial to "lick their wounds". Researchers at the University of Florida at Gainesville have discovered a protein called Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) in the saliva of mice. Wounds doused with NGF healed twice as fast as untreated, unlicked wounds. So in a few species, at least, saliva does have some curative powers. NGF has not been found in human saliva, but researchers do note that human spit contains such antibacterial agents as secretory IgA, lactoferrin, and lactoperoxidase. It has however not yet been shown that licking your wounds actually disinfects them.

Also a name of a band. See Saliva (band)

Saliva (band)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Saliva is a nu metal band originally founded in September 1996 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Members

Josey Scott - Vocals
Chris Dabaldo - Electric Guitars
Wayne Swinny - Electric Guitars
Paul Crosby - Drums
Dave Novotny - Electric Basses

Discography

Self-Titled (1997)
Every Six Seconds (2001)
Back in Your System (2002)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saliva."

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Synonyms: Saliva

Synonyms: spit (n), spittle (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Saliva

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Excretion	Saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism, salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta, sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae; (uncleanness).
Lubrication	Synovia; glycerine, oil, lubricating oil, grease; saliva; lather.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Saliva

English words defined with "saliva": amylase ♦ dribble, drivel, drool, dry mouth ♦ expectoration, expectorator, Exspuition ♦ Fluids of the body, foaming, foamy, frothing ♦ Hydrolytic ferment ♦ Insalivation ♦ lysozyme ♦ mandibular gland, Masticatory, muramidase ♦ Paralytic secretion, parotid gland, phlegm, ptyalin, ptyalism, Ptysmagogue ♦ Rubber dam ♦ salivary, salivary duct, salivary gland, salivate, salivation, Salivous, Sialogogue, slabber, slaver, Slavering, slobber, spit, spitter, spitting, sputum, Starch cellulose, sublingual gland, sublingual salivary gland, submandibular gland, submandibular salivary gland, submaxillary gland, submaxillary salivary gland ♦ The mouth waters, tobacco juice ♦ xerostomia. (references)

Specialty definitions using "saliva": Dental Waste, Drivelling Dotage ♦ I Blood-Group System, IgA, Secretory ♦ mercurial ptyalism, Metabolic Clearance Rate ♦ Rabies Virus ♦ Saliva, Artificial, Salivary Ducts, salivary fistula, salivary glands, Salivary Proteins, salivation disease, sialosyrinx, Sjogren's Syndrome, Streptococcus sanguis. (references)

Etymologies containing "saliva": Sialogogue. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Saliva" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (Salvia), Italian (saliva, spit, spittle), Latin (saliva, spittle), Portuguese (dribble, gob, rheum, saliva, spit, spittle, sputum), Romanian (salivate), Spanish (saliva, spit, spittle).

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Commercial Usage: Saliva

Domain	Title
References	Saliva Diagnostic Systems, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Assessment of Hormones and Drugs in Saliva in Biobehavioral Research (reference) Born With the Dead/ The Saliva Tree (Tor Double Novel #3) (reference) Human Saliva, Volume I (reference) Plays for the Poor Theatre: Saliva Milkshake, Christie in Love, Heads, Skinny Spew, Gum and Goo (reference) Saliva As a Diagnostic Fluid (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 694) (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Saliva

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Medium shot of purple sage (Saliva dorrii).Credit: John Craig.		Grand Rapids schoolchildren giving saliva samples as part of their city's water fluoridation project.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Use in Literature: Saliva

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Pontmercy at last, excuse the word, came to have in his mouth the same saliva as his emperor.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Her eyes rolled up, her shoulders and arms flopped loosely at her side, and a string of thick ropy saliva ran from the corner of her mouth.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Saliva

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Use of water or saliva substitutes to keep the mouth moist. (references)
		Saliva softens and moistens the food to make swallowing easier. (references)
		These rodents shed the virus in their urine, droppings and saliva. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Saliva

"Saliva" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Saliva" is used about 230 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	230	19,815

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Saliva

The following table summarizes the usage of "saliva" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Saliva	Last name	130	60,607
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Saliva

Country	Name
USA	Saliva Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Saliva

Expression using "saliva": wet with saliva. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "saliva": saliva-steeped.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Saliva

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
saliva	2,165
lyrics saliva	353
always lyrics saliva	98
in lyrics piece rest saliva	91
saliva drug test	60
saliva gland	54
always saliva	53
in piece rest saliva	52
saliva test	49
saliva tab	40
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Modern Translations: Saliva

Language		Translations for "saliva"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pështymë (spit, spittle, sputum). (various references)

Arabic		‏لعاب (dribble, slaver, slobber, spit, spittle), ‏ريق (slaver, spittle), ‏رضاب (spittle). (various references)

Bulgarian		слюнка (foam, slaver, slobber, sputum), плюнка (expectoration, spit, spittle, sputum). (various references)

Chinese		涎 (shamelessly), �"�沫 , �"�液 (salivary, spit), �"� (spit at). (various references)

Czech		slina (slaver, slobber, spit, spittle). (various references)

Danish		spyt (spittle), saliva (spittle). (various references)

Dutch		speeksel (spittle), zever (nonsense), spuug. (various references)

Esperanto		salivo. (various references)

Farsi		اب دهان (Slaver, Slobber, Spit, Spittle), بزاق (Slobber, Spit, Sputum). (various references)

Finnish		sylki (expectoration, spittle, sputum). (various references)

French		salive. (various references)

Frisian		spui, flibe. (various references)

German		Speichel (spittle). (various references)

Greek		σάλιο (slaver, spittle), σίελος (spittle). (various references)

Hebrew		ריר (dribble, spit, spittle). (various references)

Hungarian		nyál (drivel, drool, gob, spit, spittle). (various references)

Indonesian		ludah (spittle), air ludah. (various references)

Italian		saliva (spit, spittle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"��"� , �"�液 (sputum), �"� (spit, sputum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なまつば, つば (brim, spit, sputum, sword guard), � えき (sputum). (various references)

Korean		침 (Cuffing, knocking, salivary, striking, stroking). (various references)

Manx		shelley (expectorate, expectoration, phlegm, slaver, spit, spittle, sputum). (various references)

Papiamen		baba (salivate). (various references)

Pig Latin		alivasay.(various references)

Portuguese		saliva (dribble, gob, rheum, spit, spittle, sputum). (various references)

Romanian		sputã (sputum), salivã (drivel, gob, slaver, slobber, spit, spittle), clãbuc (foam, froth, lather), apã (adam's ale, adam's wine, Aqua, ocean, river, sea, stream, water, waters, waves). (various references)

Russian		слюна (slaver, spittle, sputum). (various references)

Scottish		seile (placenta, spittle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pljuvačka (slaver, spittle). (various references)

Spanish		saliva (spit, spittle). (various references)

Swedish		spott (expectoration, scorn, spittle), saliv (spittle). (various references)

Turkish		salya (dribble, salivary, slaver, slobber, spit, spittle, sputum), tükürük (gob, salivary, spit, spittle, sputum). (various references)

Turkmen		tьяkьlik (spittle). (various references)

Ukranian		слина (drivel, slaver, slobber, spittle, sputum, water). (various references)

Vietnamese		nước dãi (drivel), nước bọt (spittle). (various references)

Welsh		poer (spit, spittle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Saliva

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	uh. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	saliva. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Saliva

Derivations
	Words beginning with "saliva": salivary, salivas, salivate, salivated, salivates, salivating, salivation, salivations, salivator, salivators. (additional references)
	Words containing "saliva": hypersalivation, hypersalivations. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Saliva" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Askival, Cagiva, Calleva, Kalyvia, saalian, sabia, Saeima, Sagiv, Sailja, Saiqa, Salabat, Salala, Salavat, Saleha, salia, Saliba, Salicam, Saliha, saliiv, saliv, salive, salivi, salivia, Saluja, salva, Salvat, salvavi, Salya, Sarlvik, Savica, savila, Saxida, Selia, selina, selive, selva, Shalabai, siauliai, silia, siliea, siliva, slava, sliv, sliva, Valdivia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Saliva"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "saliva" (pronounced sulī"vu)
3	-ī" v u	conjunctiva.
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Anagrams: Saliva

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: avails, salvia.
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-s-v"
	-1 letter: alias, avail, lavas, silva, vails, vasal, vials.
	-2 letters: aals, ails, alas, lava, lavs, sail, sial, vail, vasa, vial, visa.
	-3 letters: aal, aas, ail, ais, ala, als, ava, las, lav, lis, sal, vas, via, vis.
	-4 letters: aa, ai, al, as, is, la, li, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-s-v"
	+1 letter: gavials, salivas, salvias.
	+2 letters: aestival, arrivals, malvasia, pahlavis, reavails, salivary, salivate, travails, valiants, valonias, vanillas, variolas, vedalias.
	+3 letters: ablatives, advisable, advisably, alluvials, aventails, calvarias, calvaries, carnivals, cavaliers, cavallies, cavalries, disavowal, galivants, galvanise, galvanism, javelinas, lavaliers, lavations, laxatives, malvasias, salivated, salivates, salivator, salvaging, salvation, shavetail, souvlakia, valencias, valerians, valiances, validates, vandalise, vandalism, variables, varietals.
	+4 letters: abrasively, adverbials, alleviates, assaultive, calmatives, calvariums, canvaslike, disavowals, gallivants, galvanised, galvanises, galvanisms, galvanizes, lavalieres, lavatories, leviathans, lovastatin, mediaevals, naviculars, salivating, salivation, salivators, salvations, shavetails, souvlakias, subclavian, supravital, vacillates, valiancies, valuations, vandalised, vandalises, vandalisms, vandalizes, varicellas, verapamils, vulgarians.
	+5 letters: adversarial, alleviators, antislavery, audiovisual, causatively, cavalierism, disapproval, disavowable, evaluations, galvanising, galvanizers, inadvisable, invalidates, invariables, labiovelars, laborsaving, lavallieres, lovastatins, misevaluate, palliatives, revalidates, salivations, salvational, subclavians, translative, vacillators, vagariously, valiantness, validations, vandalising, vandalistic, vascularity, vasodilator, vulcanisate.
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