Home › Words › S › sialotropismsialotropismsialotropism means attraction to the salivary glands.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, sialotropism ranks #35,028 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom sialo- + -tropism.nounAttraction to the salivary glands.e.g.“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.” — 2013, James G. Fox, Laboratory Animal Medicine, page 58:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).