dry mouth
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3.2
- noun
- /draɪ maʊθ/
- Specialized
:
boca seca
- The medication made his dry mouth worse, so he started drinking more water.
- include dry mouth
Oh no, dry mouth is the worst.
- Oh no, dry mouth is the worst.
- Lack of concentration and mental functioning during the day, dry mouth and morning headaches.
- Other studies that support that decay and periodontal disease are caused by Dyspio comes from diet and dry mouth.
Examples
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I, too, have had a dry mouth.
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Side effects include dry mouth, abdominal pain, depression, and anxiety.
Academic text (2012) -
Curtis's wine tasted sharp in his dry mouth.
Fiction book (1999) -
Therefore, dry mouth is probably not a condition of aging, but most likely one of systemic or extrinsic origin.
Academic text (1999) -
Dry mouth symptoms can be treated with hydration and sialagogues or with artificial saliva substitutes.
Academic text (1999) -
After the long hike, she felt a terrible dry mouth from dehydration.
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During the presentation, he struggled with a dry mouth and had to pause to drink.
Synonyms
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9.9
A very dry mouth because the body makes little or no saliva
Antonyms
How Much Saliva
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- Specialized
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a direct, literal combination of 'dry' (not wet) and 'mouth' (oral cavity), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer it refers to the mouth being unusually dry. This compositional symptom description is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English adjective+noun patterns, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Dry mouth comes from the simple image of a mouth that is dry, with little saliva so it feels sticky or parched. So the phrase describes the condition 'not making enough saliva'.