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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..

Acrid :: Acrid (a.) Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions..

Secernent :: Secernent (n.) That which promotes secretion.

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..

Silene :: Silene (n.) A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly..

Liquefacient :: Liquefacient (n.) An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions..

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..

Dermal :: Dermal (a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions..

Duct :: Duct (n.) One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.

Cubilose :: Cubilose (n.) A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.

Tear :: Tear (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids..

Hypersecretion :: Hypersecretion (n.) Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh..

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

Lactation :: Lactation (n.) A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

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..

Insalivation :: Insalivation (n.) The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.

Nectar :: Nectar (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.

Nostril :: Nostril (n.) One of the external openings of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares..

Blennorrhea :: Blennorrhea (n.) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.

Water :: Water (n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine..

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