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- adjective Associated with or accompanied by
salivation
Etymologies
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Examples
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A salivatory treat, but a stomach growling tease nevertheless.
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Terms like these stimulate what I've coined ISR: instant salivatory response.
The Rules of Recipe Attraction Rozanne Gold 2012
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Link puleeeseee … one realizes one has to sing priases of the boss, but such salivatory sycpophancy is laffable ..
Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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And then there is David Brock, who specializes in salivatory journalism for The American Spectator magazine.
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At length it occurred to me that they were only spitting, which was indeed the case; though how any number of passengers which it was possible for that car to contain, could have maintained such a playful and incessant shower of expectoration, I am still at a loss to understand: notwithstanding the experience in all salivatory phenomena which I afterwards acquired.
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When asked a simple, salivatory question like, “What sized crank would best fit a 1997 Santana Ti-700 Tandem?” or “Who were the first American settlers descending from the Hoechstettler Valley of Anabaptists?” he replies with a hard swallow, and stares quietly into his lap.
whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2004
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In my salivatory anticipation, I jammed a piece of cold pizza (with a very pointy end) in my mouth too quickly and wound up stabbing myself in the back of the throat.
haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2003
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This is sometimes called the superior salivatory nucleus.
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918
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Some authors believe that the secretory fibers to the parotid gland arise from a distinct nucleus, the inferior salivatory nucleus, situated near the dorsal nucleus.
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918
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The fibers from the glossopharyngeal which pass to the otic ganglion in the small superficial petrosal are supposed to be sympathetic efferent (preganglionic) fibers from the dorsal nucleus or inferior salivatory nucleus of the medulla.
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