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  • noun Plural form of secretion.

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Examples

  • A nasogastric (NG) tube, which passes through the nose and into the stomach, to help drain secretions from the stomach.

    After liver transplant surgery 2010

  • A nasogastric (NG) tube, which passes through the nose and into the stomach, to help drain secretions from the stomach.

    Intensive care unit stay 2010

  • The neck of the uterus was distinct and well defined and even the secretions from the neck could be seen as a tear glistening in the eye clear even and distinct and as plain as could be.

    The Invention of the Sims Speculum - Surgical Improvisation aka TBTAM 2009

  • Fernández & Gasparini (2000) suggested that the specialised fossae might have been used to drain unwanted saline secretions from the glands – a novel function for the structures not seen in other archosaurs.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Fernández & Gasparini (2000) suggested that the specialised fossae might have been used to drain unwanted saline secretions from the glands – a novel function for the structures not seen in other archosaurs.

    My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids Darren Naish 2006

  • To the insurance companies finding little disorders in the excretions and secretions is a serious matter.

    The Prolongation of Life 1937

  • If, as physiology has already proved to be the case, the internal absorption of secretions from the sex organs plays so large a part in determining the health and character of remote parts of the body, it is extremely likely that the highly stimulating secretion of man's semen can and does penetrate and affect the woman's whole organism.

    Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918

  • The absorption of one's own internal secretions is not an analogous case: Here the secretion is poured directly into one's own blood or lymph stream.

    Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 1918

  • Speaking of which ... and here's where I must get a little graphic, or as graphic as I ever get when discussing bodily functions or bodily secretions, which isn't very graphic at all, but still ... what is UP with all the nose-blowing that goes on after a cold?

    idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2004

  • Note: I accidentally typed "secretions" instead of "organisms" in the original version of this post.

    Wash Your New Clothes In Case Someone Wore Them And Returned Them - The Consumerist 2010

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