sialotropism

English

Etymology

sialo- +‎ -tropism

Noun

sialotropism (uncountable)

  1. Attraction to the salivary glands.
    • 2013, James G. Fox, Laboratory Animal Medicine, page 58:
      The mode of transmission also is obscure, but the virus' sialotropism and its presence in the oral cavity of infected adults suggests that horizontal spread occurs from dams to unprotected neonates.
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