saliva
Example Sentences
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After she died in 2024 in northern Spain, aged 117, scientists took samples from her stool, blood, saliva, and urine and compared them with 75 other women from the Iberian peninsula.
From BBC
Researchers closely tracked symptoms and collected daily nasal swabs, saliva samples, and blood samples to monitor infection and antibody development.
From Science Daily
Even just breathing out little saliva droplets on food that is later consumed by someone else can spread infection.
From Los Angeles Times
They can also be asked to give a preliminary saliva sample.
From BBC
So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was excited.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.