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Chemical digestion consists of numerous chemical reactions catalyzed by enzymes in saliva, gastric juice, pancreatic juice, and intestinal juice.
The sickening sound of a saliva dripping tongue licking dry lips met my ears.
She did likewise, shaking her head shortly in a futile attempt at casting away the saliva that had collected from our brawls.
It is possible to swallow, but expect the odd rivulet of saliva to escape down your chin.
For the first few days you may produce more saliva than usual, and need to swallow more often.
Last week in Yarraville, he became the fourth person to be pulled over at random and forced to surrender a saliva sample to the wallopers.
The water shrew of Eurasia weakens its aquatic prey with a similar saliva poison.
Has the patient been in contact with saliva of an animal likely to cause rabies?
Participants were asked to bring the plastic bag containing both saliva samples and the cold pack to the study visit.
Artichoke leaf extract stimulates digestive juices like saliva and bile to help you break down food.
In boars, pheromones found in boar saliva are known to cause the female to assume a mating position.
Spread by saliva, the energy-sapping state is also known as the kissing disease.
Interestingly, some future antibiotics may lie in unusual places, including the saliva of Komodo dragons.
The Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard, has more than fifteen infectious agents suspended in its saliva.
Sucking of lozenges and pastilles produces saliva which lubricates and soothes inflamed tissues and washes infecting organisms off them.
His lower lip was slack and a dribble of saliva appeared at the corner of his mouth.
The flu virus is usually spread in the small droplets of saliva coughed or sneezed into the atmosphere by an infected person.
When the food doesn't go down, the mouth produces more saliva to try and lubricate everything into submission.
I let out a dry wheeze and reach to wipe the spit and saliva away from my mouth.
Once the sugary foods have gone from the mouth salts from your saliva act to repair the damaged enamel.
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The enzyme of saliva converts starch not into glucose but into a more complex sugar to which is given the name of maltose.
Increased secretion of saliva, general perspiration, or diuresis sometimes marks the cessation of the pyrexia.
The Indian swift, however, utilises all manner of material by way of economising its saliva.
This he moistened with saliva and quickly dropped into the center of his fuel stack.
The diastase of the malt has the same action on starch as the ptyalin in the saliva.
Amylopsin is much more powerful and rapid than the ptyalin of the saliva, especially on uncooked starch.
The saliva, and the pancreatic juice, transform the insoluble starch into soluble sugar.
The purest saliva was obtained for their experiments directly from the parotid duct, in man, the horse, and dog.
Then, too, there is a substance in the saliva which is used in the process of digestion.
The belly is hard and painful, and in the morning there is a copious flow of saliva, and an uncommon craving for dry food.
It is not absolutely indicative of the presence of blood, for tincture of guaiacum is coloured blue by milk, saliva, and pus.
Participants alternately swished and gargled and then expectorated the saliva into the cup.
Her mouth opened, the saliva drooled forth, and she licked her chops with the pleasure of anticipation.
This he saturated with saliva and then coated it over with the powder.
She constantly held saliva in her mouth, though she did not often drool.
Her eyes were bloodshot and the saliva had gathered in a white foam on her black lips.
There was a mouth under the eyes, the lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva.
Fur traps other allergens such as dust, pollen or animal dander and is also often coated with saliva proteins.
The drug is the synthetic form of a hormone, exendin-4, which is found in the saliva of the Gila monster lizard.
Traditional saliva ejectors are designed with blunt ends that can lock onto patients' mucosal tissue and cause discomfort.
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