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Definition of Excreting
1. Noun. The bodily process of discharging waste matter.
Specialized synonyms: Defecation, Laxation, Shitting, Incontinence, Incontinency, Micturition, Urination
Generic synonyms: Discharge, Emission, Expelling
Derivative terms: Eliminate, Evacuate, Excrete, Excrete, Void
Definition of Excreting
1. Verb. (present participle of excrete) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excreting
1. excrete [v] - See also: excrete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excreting
Literary usage of Excreting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Organic Diseases and Functional Disorders of the Stomach by George Budd (1856)
"If the blood be rendered impure by defective action of one of the excreting
organs, or by improper food, or by any fault in the assimilating processes, ..."
2. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"A woman had for nine months been affected with disease of the excreting lachrymal
organs. The sac was swelled, hard, and upon the most prominent part of the ..."
3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1854)
"The stomach is in more direct relation with the liver than with any other important
excreting gland. The stomach and the liver are parts of the same great ..."
4. The Human Body: An Account of Its Structure and Activities and the by Henry Newell Martin (1886)
"General Arrangement of the Nitrogen-excreting Organs.—These organs are (1) the
kidneys, the glands which secrete the urine; (2) the ureters or ducts of the ..."
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