Definition of Excretories

1. excretory [n] - See also: excretory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excretories

excrescently
excrescents
excreta
excretable
excretal
excrete
excreted
excreter
excreters
excretes
excretin
excreting
excretion
excretions
excretive
excretories (current term)
excretorily
excretory duct
excretory ducts of lacrimal gland
excretory ductules of lacrimal gland
excretory organ
excretory product
excruciable
excruciate
excruciated
excruciates
excruciating

Literary usage of Excretories

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. First Lines of the Practice of Physic by William Cullen (1808)
"... and the resistance of the excretories: but the force of the arteries depends upon their fulness and distention, chiefly given to them by the quantity of ..."

2. The study of medicine by John Mason Good, Samuel Cooper (1829)
"... and hence powerfully operating upon all the excretories of the system, without having a special affinity to one set more than to another. ..."

3. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... and the quantity which may be drawn off from the innumerable excretories that open into this cavity, it will be obvious, that a very great evacuation ..."

4. The works of William Cullen: containing his physiology, nosology, and first by William Cullen (1827)
"... excretions depends upon a certain balance between the force of the larger arteries propelling the blood, and the resistance of the excretories: but the ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1812)
"... or be discharged by- one or other of the excretories. Another function of the lungs is to repair the blood deteriorated in circulating through the body. ..."

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