Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of discharging waste matter from the blood, tissues, or organs.
- noun The matter, such as urine or sweat, that is so excreted.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of excreting.
- noun The substance excreted, as sweat or urine, or certain juices in plants.
- noun Synonyms Excretion, Secretion. Secretion is the more general word, and includes excretion. The latter is restricted to the elimination of useless or harmful substances from the body. Thus, the secretion of saliva or of milk would not be called
excretion ; but the latter term would be applied to the secretion of the urine. Both terms are applied to the products as well as to the functions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of excreting.
- noun That which is excreted; excrement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process of
removing orejecting material that has no furtherutility , especially from the body; the act ofexcreting . - noun Something being
excreted in that manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
- noun the bodily process of discharging waste matter
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Examples
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Anything about excretion is a huge hit with my boys.
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The last one brings its own problems though: the current record from ingestion to excretion is about forty minutes.
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The terms excretion and elimination are frequently used to describe the same process whereby a substance leaves the body.
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The long-term excretion of VDPV by some immunodeficient individuals (iVDPV) has been recognized since 1962
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The long-term excretion of VDPV by some immunodeficient individuals (iVDPV) has been recognized since 1962
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Thus, the liver ranks above all others as an organ of excretion, that is, it separates material of no further use to the body.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Creatine supplementation can cause an increase in urinary creatinine excretion, which is often used as an indicator of kidney function.
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Microalbuminuria is defined as excretion of between 30 and 300mg of albumin a day in the urine.
Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2009
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Many ancient texts say that depression and even shortened lifespan are due to too much "excretion".
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Willett, Trends in 24-h urinary sodium excretion in the United States, 1957-2003: a systematic review.
Joel Fuhrman, M.D.: Salt Is Risky, Even If Your Blood Pressure Is Normal M.D. Joel Fuhrman 2011
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