xerostomia

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Abnormal dryness of the mouth. countable,uncountable
    — 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.”

词形变化

xerostomias plural

词源

Etymology tree
English xero-
English stoma
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
English -ia
English xerostomia
From xero- + stoma + -ia.
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