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Definition of Excretory
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the process of excretion.
Definition of Excretory
1. a. Having the quality of excreting, or throwing off excrementitious matter.
Definition of Excretory
1. Adjective. Of, or relating to excretion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excretory
1. [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Excretory
1. Relating to excretion. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excretory
Literary usage of Excretory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Limulus agrees with the majority of the Crustacea in being destitute of renal
excretory caeca or tubes opening into the hinder part of the gut. ..."
2. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"excretory ORGANS. excretory organs consist of coiled or branched and often ciliated
tubes, with an excretory pore opening on the outer surface of the body, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"The desire to acquaint myself with modern ideas as to the homologies of the
excretory organs has led to the present review. These organs constitute a ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"On the Structure and Development of the excretory Apparatus of ... I had then
the opportunity of examining the structure of the excretory organs of ..."
5. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"The excretory SYSTEM1 consists of several parts : (i) of the more or less numerous
terminal "flame" cells or funnel cells (figs. ..."
6. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1903)
"THE excretory SYSTEM. The general arrangement of the parts of the ... The excretory
pore is single and located on the summit of a low eminence at the hind ..."
7. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1878)
"ETIOLOGY—The excretory gall-ducts are most frequently contracted and closed by
catarrhal ... Tumors pressing on the .excretory ducts, or growing into them. ..."
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