Translation for 'saliva' from English to Finnish

saliva

sylki {noun}

• All of the human salivary glands terminate in the mouth, where the saliva proceeds to aid in digestion.
• Patients can lessen the effects of xerostomia with breath mints, sugarless gum, or lozenges, or physicians can increase saliva flow with artificial saliva or oral pilocarpine.
• The saliva stimulated by sympathetic innervation is thicker, and saliva stimulated parasympathetically is more fluid-like.
• Drooling, or slobbering, is the flow of saliva outside the mouth.
• Hypersalivation, or ptyalism, or hypersialosis is the excessive production of saliva.

• The concentration of calcium in saliva produced by the submandibular gland is twice that of the saliva produced by the parotid gland.
• Unstimulated saliva production reduces by 40 to 70% between the age of 20 and 80 years, but stimulated saliva production is not affected.
• Saliva testing has not been shown to accurately measure blood-bound hormone levels.
• By April 2020, Wyllie and her colleagues had demonstrated that saliva could be a sensitive and reliable sample for SARS-CoV-2 detection.
• The combined technique has been described as real-time RT-PCR deep airway material collected via suction catheter or saliva.

• During pregnancy women's calcium, phosphate and saliva pH values decrease, leading to an alteration the composition of saliva.
• The pacifier functions through the intake of saliva through a microfluidic channel, which guides saliva to a reservoir filled with sensory nodes within the soft plastic pacifier.
• Predatory Reduviidae use the long rostrum to inject a lethal saliva that liquefies the insides of the prey, which are then sucked out.
• Cannabis is detectable by saliva testing. Just like blood testing, saliva testing detects the presence of parent drugs and not their inactive metabolites.
• Saliva microscopes, when correctly used, can detect ferning structures in the saliva that precede ovulation.

• "Saliva Drive" - Howie and the staff collect saliva for Octo so he can enter a cherry pit spitting competition.
• The Phadebas Forensic Press test is used as a presumptive test for saliva.
• In 2008, scientists announced that the more cost effective saliva testing could eventually replace some blood tests, as saliva contains 20% of the proteins found in blood.
• Saliva consists of mucus and serous fluid; the serous fluid contains the enzyme amylase, which is important for the digestion of carbohydrates.
• There are three sets of salivary glands: the parotid, the submandibular and the sublingual glands.