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sialotropism

sialotropism noun: attraction to the salivary glands.

Noun

sialotropism (uncountable)

  1. Attraction to the salivary glands.
    • The mode of transmission also is obscure, but the virus' sialotropism and its presence in the oral cavity of infected adults suggests that horizontal spread occurs from dams to unprotected neonates.2013, James G. Fox, Laboratory Animal Medicine, page 58

Origin of sialotropism

From sialo- + -tropism.

Questions about sialotropism

What does sialotropism mean?
Sialotropism means attraction to the salivary glands.
What part of speech is sialotropism?
Sialotropism is a noun.

Words near sialotropism in the dictionary

  1. sialotranscriptome
  2. sialotranscriptomes
  3. sialotranscriptomic
  4. sialotriantennary
  5. sialotropic
  6. sialotropism
  7. sialoyl
  8. sialoyls
  9. sialuria
  10. sialyated
  11. sialyation

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