Excretion

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excretion \Ex*cre"tion\, n. [Cf. F. excr['e]tion.]
     1. The act of excreting.
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              To promote secretion and excretion.   --Pereira.
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     2. That which is excreted; excrement. --Bacon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excretion
       n 1: the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: {elimination},
             {evacuation}, {excreting}, {voiding}]
       2: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces)
          discharged from the body [syn: {body waste}, {excreta}, {excrement},
           {excretory product}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "excretion":
     cleaning out, clearance, clearing, defecation, depletion,
     discharging cargo, drainage, draining, effusion, egress,
     elimination, emptying, evacuation, exfiltration, exhausting,
     exhaustion, external secretion, extravasation, exudation,
     filtering, filtration, internal secretion, lacrimation, lactation,
     leaching, lixiviation, off-loading, ooze, oozing, percolating,
     percolation, removal, secernment, secreta, secretion, seep,
     seepage, straining, transudation, unloading, venting, voidance,
     voiding, weep, weeping