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The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.

Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.

Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses…

Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.

Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison.

An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.

A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.

-- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.

ose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some sp…

f the wall of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls.

A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.