saliva

Converse of object

• drool: Affected animals refuse food, drool saliva from the mouth, and lose weight.
• swallow: Old belief: if swallow saliva while on path crossing sacred enclosure then cough will enter family.
• inject: The flea injects saliva containing antigens to stop the host's blood clotting.
• stimulate: Stimulated saliva - saliva which has been stimulated by chewing.
• produce: Older people may produce less saliva, causing further problems.

Adjective modifier

• artificial: Artificial saliva should not be the only thing you use to help with a dry mouth.
• less: You may make less saliva than usual, or none at all.
• human: Human saliva actually contains factors that promote competence of resident bacteria to become transformed by DNA [ 48 ] .
• more: The act of sucking a lozenge, by itself, causes more saliva to be produced naturally.
• own: To stop mosquito bites itching lick with your own saliva.

Modifies a noun

• cotinine: The proportion of children interviewed from whom a valid saliva cotinine measurement was obtained was 83 % .
• swab: Along comes a health worker who takes a saliva swab specimen for analysis.
• gland: Cow's saliva glands are probably best left to the locals!
• sample: The results from the first quarter of the saliva samples have all been negative, showing that the bats sampled were not carrying disease.
• substitute: This can be done with moisture gels or saliva substitutes.
• flow: The reduced saliva flow can increase the chance of tooth decay.

Noun used with modifier

• flea: Flea Allergy No the flea is not the real allergy here, it is the fleas saliva.
• tick: The researchers found that tick saliva was responsible for suppressing the ability of the host's immune system to repel infection.

Preposition: in

• mouth: A mild toxin secreted into the saliva in the mouth helps to stun the prey.

Preposition: of

• animal: Caused by a virus that is in the saliva of infected animals, rabies is usually transmitted by bites from infected animals.