xerostomia

n. [医] 口腔干燥

词形变化

xerostomias 复数 xerostomias

别名

xerostomy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Abnormal dryness of the mouth.

    可数 不可数 医学

    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.”

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

dry mouth

上位词 3

dryness waterlessness xerotes

词源

From xero- + stoma + -ia.

来源：wiktionary