Definition of Ptyalisms

1. Noun. (plural of ptyalism) ¹

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Definition of Ptyalisms

1. ptyalism [n] - See also: ptyalism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptyalisms

ptosis
ptosyl
ptotic
ptr
pts
ptui
ptyalagogue
ptyalagogues
ptyalin
ptyaline
ptyalins
ptyalise
ptyalised
ptyalises
ptyalism
ptyalisms (current term)
ptyalith
ptyalize
ptyalized
ptyalizes
ptyalizing
ptyalogogue
ptyalogogues
ptychopariid
ptychopariids
ptyctodont
ptyctodontid
ptyctodontids
ptyctodonts
ptyxes

Literary usage of Ptyalisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"... PtyalismS There are ' statistics ' in the present paper, however, which we do not remember to have encountered before ; for example : i If the practice ..."

2. Memoirs of Military Surgery, and Campaigns of the French Armies, on the by Dominique Jean Larrey (1814)
"... and in others violent spasms and ptyalisms, which it was difficult to check, f Into this civil hospital, which did honour to the humanity of Belliard, ..."

3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1840)
"Several instances, however, have occurred to the writer, in which full ptyalisms have been established, both from large doses of calomel or very minute ones ..."

4. A System of oral surgery: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of by James Edmund Garretson (1884)
"... and never is it to be inferred that, because good results are observed from the gentlest of ptyalisms, pushing the medicine will expedite a cure. ..."

5. On the Motions of the Earth and Heavenly Bodies: As Explainable by Electro by Peter Miller Cunningham (1834)
"... but the various excrementitious ones succeeding to it,—diarrhoeas, ulcers, ptyalisms, and the like. I have previously shown that both electric and ..."

6. The American Journal of Homœopathic Materia Medica (1869)
"She- was seized during the night after taking the medicine with rigors, stiffness of the neck, &c., the next day ptyalisms occurred, which continued ten ..."

7. Our Dogs and Their Diseases by George S. Heatley (1884)
"Thus severe and obstinate ptyalisms often occur, and yet there is no manifest change in the state of the salivary glands. According to Swieten and Mead, ..."

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