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sial/o

A word root that means saliva or the glands that make it.

sy-AL-oh root

What it means

The root in words about saliva and the salivary glands. Sialorrhea is too much saliva or drooling, sialadenitis is inflammation of a salivary gland, and a sialolith is a stone in a salivary duct.

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Related terms

-itis

A word ending that means inflammation.

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