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Your mouth, drowning itself for no reason you agreed to.
means A medical term for producing more saliva than normal, often from nerve irritation, certain medications, nausea, or problems swallowing.
from Built from Greek 'hyper' (over, beyond) plus Latin 'saliva' (spit), with the '-ation' ending marking it as a process — a straightforward scientific compound rather than a word with a colorful backstory, coined as medicine needed precise terms for the body doing too much of something ordinary.
- common triggers
- pregnancy, reflux, anxiety, certain meds
- fancy name
- ptyalism, because doctors love Greek
- nerve culprit
- vagus nerve overreacting to stimuli
- fun fact
- you swallow it a thousand times daily, unnoticed