Secretion

3 definitions found

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

  Secretion \Se*cre"tion\, n. [L. secretio: cf. F.
     s['e]cr['e]tion.]
     1. The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of
        dutiable goods.
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     2. (Physiol.) The act of secreting; the process by which
        material is separated from the blood through the agency of
        the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the
        cells into new substances so as to form the various
        secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive
        fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and
        hence are formed the various secretions.
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     3. (Physiol.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated
        and emitted, as the gastric juice.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  secretion
       n 1: the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some
            substance [syn: {secernment}]
       2: a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is
          not a waste) released from a gland or cell

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

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "secretion":
     burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering,
     covering up, covertness, darkening, deception, discharge,
     discharging, drain, draining, dribbling, drip, dripping, drop,
     dropping, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection, elimination,
     emanating, emanation, emission, escape, excreta, excreting,
     excretion, extravasate, extravasation, extrusion, exudation, flow,
     flux, generation, hiddenness, hiding, interment, invisibility,
     leak, leakage, leaking, masking, mystification, obscuration,
     obscurement, occultation, oozing, putting away, release, running,
     screening, secrecy, secreting, seepage, seeping, subterfuge,
     transudate, transudation, trickle, trickling,
     uncommunicativeness