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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Venomous :: Venomous (a.) Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects..
Nectar :: Nectar (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Secretory :: Secretory (a.) Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves..
Acrid :: Acrid (a.) Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions..
Pancreas :: Pancreas (n.) The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus..
Purpuriparous :: Purpuriparous (a.) Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods..
Secretion :: Secretion (n.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice..
Chalazion :: Chalazion (n.) A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands..
Spit :: Spit (n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
Antigalastic :: Antigalastic (a.) Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.
Gall :: Gall (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder..
Secernent :: Secernent (n.) That which promotes secretion.
Anury :: Anury (n.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.
Upas :: Upas (n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas..
Secretion :: Secretion (n.) The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions..
Suppression :: Suppression (n.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion..
Sclerobase :: Sclerobase (n.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma..
Protoplasm :: Protoplasm (n.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called physical basis of life; the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc..
Osmidrosis :: Osmidrosis (n.) The secretion of fetid sweat.
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