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Secretory  adj.  (Physiol.) Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office of secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.






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"Secretory" Quotes from Famous Books



... the wave of blood thrown into them by the heart. He taught that at every systole of the arteries a certain portion of their contents was discharged at their extremities, namely, by the exhalents and secretory vessels. Though he demonstrated the anastomosis of arteries and veins, he nowhere hints his belief that the contents of the former pass into the latter, to be conveyed back to the heart, and from it to be again diffused over the body. He made a near approach ...
— Fathers of Biology • Charles McRae

... during violent exercise is carried forwards by the action of the muscles faster in the arteries, than it can be taken up by the veins; as appears by the redness of the skin. And from the consequent sweats, it is evinced, that the secretory vessels of the skin during exercise pour out the perspirable matter faster, than the mouths of the absorbent vessels can drink it up. Which mouths are not exposed to the increased muscular action, or to the stimulus of the increased ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin



Words linked to "Secretory" :   secretory organ, secretory phase



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