SIALADENITIS Synonyms

• relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland

• the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

• (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound

• (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease

• an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

• the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people

• moral corruption or contamination

• (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure

• a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat

• the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

• arousal to violent emotion

• the act of setting something on fire

• relating to or located near the parotid gland

• of or relating to saliva

• beneath the tongue

• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

• a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

• a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls

• an enclosed conduit for a fluid

• Below the mandible; submaxillary