sialorrhea


Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Wikipedia.
Related to sialorrhea: sialorrhoea

si·al·or·rhe·a

 (sī-ăl′ə-rē′ə)
n.
An excessive secretion of saliva.

[Greek sialon, saliva + -rrhea.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

sialorrhea, sialorrhoea

the act or process of salivation.
See also: Bodily Functions
-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Translations
References in periodicals archive ?
M2 PHARMA-August 27, 2019-US WorldMeds LLC wins US FDA approval for MYOBLOC injection to treat chronic sialorrhea
Global Banking News-August 27, 2019-US WorldMeds LLC wins US FDA approval for MYOBLOC injection to treat chronic sialorrhea
M2 EQUITYBITES-August 27, 2019-US WorldMeds LLC wins US FDA approval for MYOBLOC injection to treat chronic sialorrhea
NT0502 is being developed to address the significant unmet medical need for the treatment of chronic sialorrhea (excessive drooling) in adult and pediatric patients with neurological conditions, including cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, mental retardation and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
They also commonly suffer seizures, neuroirritability, feeding intolerance, and sialorrhea (Hauer, Houtrow, & Section on Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Council on Children With Disabilities, 2017).
The patient, now aged 19, is found conscious, reactive, cooperative, with sardonic facies, sialorrhea, global aphasia, ataxic gait, lower extremity muscular atrophy, and upper extremity spasticity at grade 3 on Ashworth Scale (Fig.
It is possible to observe that more than 73.3% of the children in the oral breathing group had a significant difference in the manifestations of daytime and nighttime oral breathing, frequent colds, snoring, nocturnal sialorrhea and dry throat sensation upon awakening.
(5) Its anticholinergic effects have been also investigated for treatment of hyperhidrosis as well as sialorrhea caused by neurodegenerative disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Four days post admission, she was noted to have increased motor activity, restlessness and sialorrhea, whereas the psychotic symptoms persisted.
Signs of autonomic nervous system instability that frequently accompany NMS include labile blood pressure, tachycardia, sialorrhea, diaphoresis, flushing, skin pallor, and incontinence.
Sialorrhea is characterized by excessive drooling or salivation.
An 8-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with odynophagia of secretions, dysphagia of liquids, and sialorrhea. His exam was negative for stridor, hypoxia, and aphonia.