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- Secretion - n. - The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
- Secretion - n. - 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.
- Secretion - n. - Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
- Diuretic - a. - Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
- Secretion - n. - The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
- Erthine - a. - Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.
- Cubilose - n. - A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.
- Anury - n. - Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.
- Mucin - n. - An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character. It is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.
- Salivation - n. - The act or process of salivating; an excessive secretion of saliva, often accompanied with soreness of the mouth and gums; ptyalism.
- Issue - n. - An artificial ulcer, usually made in the fleshy part of the arm or leg, to produce the secretion and discharge of pus for the relief of some affected part.
- Bleareye - n. - A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
- Galacta-gogue - n. - An agent exciting secretion of milk.
- Thoroughpin - n. - A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.
- Thirst - n. - A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation.
- Flytrap - n. - A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.
- Gall - n. - The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.
- Pearl - n. - A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
- Lactifuge - n. - A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.
- Duct - n. - One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
- Nectar - n. - A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
- Spit - n. - The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
- Ambergris - n. - A substance of the consistence of wax, 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 are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212¡ Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.
- Grease - n. - An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences.
- Venomous - a. - Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.
- Silene - n. - A genus of caryophyllaceous plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly.
- Antigalastic - a. - Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.
- Cerumen - n. - The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.