Definition of secretion

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Secretion (n.) The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods..

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Bleareye :: Bleareye (n.) A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter..
Lactifuge :: Lactifuge (n.) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body..
Saliva :: Saliva (n.) The secretion from the salivary glands.
Acrid :: Acrid (a.) Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions..
Issue :: Issue (n.) An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part..
Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..
Melitose :: Melitose (n.) A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus)..
Vegetal :: Vegetal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals..
Secernent :: Secernent (n.) That which promotes secretion.
Purpuriparous :: Purpuriparous (a.) Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods..
Secernent :: Secernent (n.) A vessel in, or by means of, which the process of secretion takes place; a secreting vessel..
Osmidrosis :: Osmidrosis (n.) The secretion of fetid sweat.
Pearl :: Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed
Nectar :: Nectar (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
Anury :: Anury (n.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.
Deobstruent :: Deobstruent (a.) Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient.
Secretion :: Secretion (n.) The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods..
Chalazion :: Chalazion (n.) A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands..
Blennorrhea :: Blennorrhea (n.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.
Gonococcus :: Gonococcus (n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease..
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