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Definition of Excretes
1. excrete [v] - See also: excrete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excretes
Literary usage of Excretes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Physiology: Normal and Pathological. For Students and by Winfield Scott Hall (1905)
"... which consumes alcohol and oxygen and excretes acetic acid (C,H,O + O = H,O +
... malic acid, tartaric acid, or mucic acid, and excretes butyric acid, ..."
2. Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners: A Manual of Horse Medicine and Surgery by Matthew Horace Hayes (1903)
"At the coronet, the horn-producing membrane excretes the wall of the hoof; ...
209) it excretes soft horny cells which bind it (the sensitive lamina:) to ..."
3. An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy by Herbert Spencer, Frederick Howard Collins (1889)
"If any tissue that consumes, transforms, excretes, or secretes matters that pass
into it from the blood, is not formed of the same constituents as these ..."
4. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"Rubner and Heubner have shown that an infant in the first six months excretes
less urea than the adult. In the second half-year the infant excretes more ..."
5. The Diseases of infancy and childhood, designed for the use of students and by Henry Koplik (1906)
"Rubner and Heubner have shown that an infant in the first six months excretes
less urea than the adult. In the second half year the infant excretes more ..."
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