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xerostomia

xerostomia noun: abnormal dryness of the mouth.

Noun

xerostomia (countable and uncountable, plural xerostomias)

  1. Abnormal dryness of the mouth.
    • Craig Welzbacher (actor) (2013), 6:02 from the start, in "First Days" (Modern Family), season 5, episode 2: “Claire (Julie Bowen): Amazing! You guys are actually hanging out by the water cooler. / Office worker (Craig Welzbacher): I have xerostomia. It's chronic dry mouth.”

xerostomia meaning in Tamil

xerostomia in Tamil

உலர்வாய், வறள்வாய், வாய் வறட்சி

Synonyms of xerostomia

Forms of xerostomia

pluralxerostomias

Origin of xerostomia

From xero- + stoma + -ia.

Words formed from xerostomia

Questions about xerostomia

What does xerostomia mean?
Xerostomia means abnormal dryness of the mouth.
What is xerostomia in Tamil?
Xerostomia in Tamil is உலர்வாய், வறள்வாய், வாய் வறட்சி. See Xerostomia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is xerostomia?
Xerostomia is a noun.
What is the plural of xerostomia?
The plural of xerostomia is xerostomias.

Words near xerostomia in the dictionary

  1. xerosol
  2. xerosols
  3. xerosphere
  4. xerospheres
  5. xerostoma
  6. xerostomia
  7. xerostomias
  8. xerostomic
  9. xerostomy
  10. xerotes
  11. xerotherm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: xerostomia (page history and authors); xerostomia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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