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tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.

Removing obstructions; having power to clear or open the natural ducts of the fluids and secretions of the body; aperient. -- n.

Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.

An application for drying up secretions.

Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine. -- n.

One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.

Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.

Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira.

us seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

, 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.

A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

A vegetable microörganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.

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. Grease bush. (Bot.) Same as Grease wood (below). -- Grease moth (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy…

A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.

above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperæmia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

nomous one in color and manner, or when an odorless insect imitates, in color, one having secretion offensive to birds.

The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions of the mouth in eating.

An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.