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drool [ drool ]
Definitions related to drooling:
  • Habitual flow of saliva out of the mouth.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • Saliva spilling from the mouth.
    NICHD Pediatric Terminology
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Saliva spilling out of the mouth.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Drooling is the unintentional loss of saliva from the mouth. The term drooling commonly refers to anterior drooling and should be distinguished from posterior drooling, in which saliva spills over the tongue through the faucial isthmus.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2025
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