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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This entry is, of course, inspired by ‘zero-scape.’ Xerostomia is the two-dollar medical term for dry mouth, so zerostomia would be the condition of a mouth completely devoid of fluid. It gets 200+ ghits vs. 300k for the original. Examples:
It has been found that chewing, by a non-exercising zerostomia patient having decreased salivary gland function, i.e. while not exercising …
www.freepatentsonline.com/4906455.html
The Prevention and Treatment of Radiotherapy-Induced Zerostomia
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053429603700137
Recently, we experienced a 32-year-old woman complained of xerophthalmia, zerostomia and polyarthralgia which was diagnosed as Sj6gren syndrome …
www.koreamed.org/SearchBasic.php?DT=1&RID=95799
Cranial neuropathy following curative chemotherapy and …expected mucositis, dysgeusia, and zerostomia.
journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=401184
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