Nerve damage. Dry mouth can be a result of nerve damage to the head and neck area from an injury or surgery. Dehydration. Conditions that lead to dehydration, such as fever, excessive sweating, vomiting, diarrhoea, blood loss and burns can cause dry mouth. Surgical removal of the salivary glands.
Ethnopharmacology is a related study of ethnic groups and their use of drugs. Ethnopharmacology is distinctly linked to plant use, ethnobotany, as this is the main delivery of pharmaceuticals. Ethnopharmacy is the interdisciplinary science that investigates the perception and use of pharmaceuticals within a given human society.
ethnonationalism (plural ethnonationalisms) A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity. 1987, Walker Connor, âEthnonationalismâ, in Understanding Political Development: an Analytic Study, Little, Brown, ISBN 9780316928595, page 196: It risks triteness to note that during the past two decades ethnonationalism has been an extremely consequential force throughout the first, second, and third worlds. 1998, William A. Douglass, âA western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland culturesâ, in Nation and State at International Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521583152, page 73: