Definition of "ptyalism" []

• Excessive flow of saliva. (noun)

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• "To many are still practicing ptyalism over our new president and his spoken concepts."
• "In the morning had a rigor; acute fever, hot sweat, appeared to be free of fever; did not sleep long; after the sleep a chill, ptyalism; in the evening, great incoherence; after a little, vomited a small quantity of dark bilious matters."
• "Marsden 9.14 reports a case in which, following secondary papular syphilis and profuse spontaneous ptyalism, there was vicarious secretion of the urinary constituents from the skin."