Secretory

3 definitions found

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

  Secretory \Se*cre"to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. s['e]cr['e]toire. See
     {Secrete}.] (Physiol.)
     Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office of
     secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n. A
     secretory vessel; a secernent.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  secretory
       adj : of or relating to or producing a secretion; " a secretory
             cell"

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

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "secretory":
     egestive, eliminative, excretionary, excretive, excretory,
     exudative, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational,
     lacteal, lacteous, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous,
     secretional, secretive, seminal, serous, sialagogic, spermatic,
     transudative, watering, watery