Definition of excretion

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Excretion (n.) The act of excreting.

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Ejection :: Ejection (n.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions..
Excretion :: Excretion (n.) The act of excreting.
Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions..
Urine :: Urine (n.) In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion..
Purgament :: Purgament (n.) That which is excreted; excretion.
Excretion :: Excretion (n.) That which is excreted; excrement.
Diuresis :: Diuresis (n.) Free excretion of urine.
Transpiration :: Transpiration (n.) The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration..
Excretive :: Excretive (a.) Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion..
Urinary :: Urinary (a.) Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions..
Metabolism :: Metabolism (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism)..
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..
Bloody :: Bloody (a.) Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat..
Excrementive :: Excrementive (a.) Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement.
Disassimilation :: Disassimilation (n.) The decomposition of complex substances, within the organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with evolution of energy, -- a normal nutritional process the reverse of assimilation; downward metabolism..
Excernent :: Excernent (a.) Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion..
Colliquation :: Colliquation (n.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.
Stegnotic :: Stegnotic (a.) Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally..
Biliation :: Biliation (n.) The production and excretion of bile.
Suppression :: Suppression (n.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion..
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