Definition of secretion

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Secretion (n.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice..

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Secrete :: Secrete (v. t.) To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion.
Vacuole :: Vacuole (n.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm..
Lactation :: Lactation (n.) A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.
Darlingtonia :: Darlingtonia (n.) A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves..
Water :: Water (n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine..
Agalaxy :: Agalaxy (n.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.
Excito-secretory :: Excito-secretory (a.) Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action..
Diuretic :: Diuretic (a.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
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
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..
Calcify :: Calcify (v. t.) To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
Duct :: Duct (n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
Chromidrosis :: Chromidrosis (n.) Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.
Cerumen :: Cerumen (n.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax..
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..
Gum :: Gum (n.) A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins..
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)..
Secretitious :: Secretitious (a.) Parted by animal secretion; as, secretitious humors..
Cubilose :: Cubilose (n.) A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.
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