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Secretion   /səkrˈiʃən/   Listen
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Secretion  n.  
1.
The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
2.
(Physiol.) The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
3.
(Physiol.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.






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... San Bartolome and is secured from an insect, a sort of plant-louse, which lives upon the blackthorn and related trees. The insect is found only in the wet season, is small, though growing rapidly, and is of a fiery-red color, though it coats itself over with a white secretion. It lives in swarms, which form conspicuous masses. These are gathered in vessels, washed to remove the white secretion, boiled, crushed, and strained through a cloth; an oily matter, mixed with blood (?) and water ...
— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

... secretion of milk, to which the bitch is subject nine weeks after oestrum, is now appearing. Her mammae are enlarged, and I can squeeze a considerable quantity of milk out of the teats. Give an aloetic pill, and continue ...
— The Dog - A nineteenth-century dog-lovers' manual, - a combination of the essential and the esoteric. • William Youatt

... Fahr. can rupture this tegument, as occurs in the process of boiling potatoes; but the water diffused through the earth in the neighbourhood of the growing tuber, never reaches such a height. How then is the difficulty obviated? This is effected by a secretion called diastase which is found in the tubers in the immediate vicinity of the eyes or buds. "It is stored up in that situation for the purpose of being conveyed, by the vessels connected with the bud, into the substance of the tuber, when the demand for nutrition ...
— The Church of England Magazine - Volume 10, No. 263, January 9, 1841 • Various

... in order to act normally and to do their work properly must be in healthful condition. When the blood becomes saturated with the deadly poison that comes from the pipe or cigar, and the soft membranes of the mouth become filled with the poisonous secretion from the quid, as a consequence, every member of the body becomes affected, and disease and suffering are the final results. Lord Bacon said, "To smoke is a secret delight, serving to steal away men's brains." Many others have expressed themselves ...
— How John Became a Man • Isabel C. Byrum

... tabooed by the followers of Dr. Haig, the gout specialist, on account of the belief that they tend to increase the secretion of uric acid. But this evil propensity is stoutly denied by other food-reformers. For myself I am inclined to believe that their supposed indigestibility, etc., arises from the fact that they are generally cooked in hard ...
— Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses • Florence Daniel


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