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

To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The production and excretion of bile.

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]

mposition 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. The breaking down of already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. M…

Free excretion of urine.

The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.

Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion.

Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.] "The excrementive parts." Felthman.

Having the power of excreting, or promoting excretion. Harvey.

Excretion of sweat; perspiration.

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).

phosphatic nodules. Phosphatic diathesis (Med.), a habit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates with the urine.

That which is excreted; excretion. [Obs.]

Foul matter; excretion; dregs; filthy, useless, or rejected matter of any kind; specifically (Med.), the foul matter that collects on the teeth and tongue in low fevers and other conditions attended with great vital depression.

Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally. -- 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. Quain.

, 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. Cudworth.

Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions.