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Your mouth's way of overreacting, flooding with spit when it already feels drowned.
means The medical term for excessive salivation, far beyond what's needed to handle a mouthful of food.
from Built from Greek ptyalon, meaning 'spittle' or 'saliva' — itself related to the verb ptyein, 'to spit.' The Greeks were apparently as blunt about bodily fluids as modern medicine is: the '-ism' suffix was simply bolted on to turn 'spittle' into a clinical condition, the way '-itis' signals inflammation. No metaphor hiding underneath — just spit, named plainly, then dressed up in a lab coat.
- also called
- sialorrhea or hypersalivation
- common trigger
- early pregnancy, nausea, or nerve damage
- fun fact
- some anticonvulsants cause it as a side effect
- opposite problem
- xerostomia, the dry-mouth twin