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Secretory :: Secretory (a.) Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves..

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..

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)..

Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..

Pancreatic :: Pancreatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments..

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

Mellitic :: Mellitic (a.) Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes..

Antigalastic :: Antigalastic (a.) Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.

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

Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..

Thoroughpin :: Thoroughpin (n.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through..

Diuretic :: Diuretic (a.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.

Galacta-gogue :: Galacta-gogue (n.) An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Desiccative :: Desiccative (n.) An application for drying up secretions.

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

Spit :: Spit (n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.

Sebaceous :: Sebaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals..

Anury :: Anury (n.) Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

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

Papula :: Papula (n.) A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule..

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