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Definition of Secretions
1. secretion [n] - See also: secretion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secretions
Literary usage of Secretions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and by Austin Flint (1876)
"General considerations— Differences between the secretions and fluids containing
formed anatomical elements—Classification of the ..."
2. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and by Austin Flint (1881)
"Tho secretions are not permanent, self-regenerating fluids, ... Again, the most
important of the secretions, as contradistinguished from the excretions, ..."
3. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1908)
"Thus during the eight years since my attention was first called to the importance
of salivary and nasal secretions in their relation to health and disease, ..."
4. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"secretions and excretions are distinguished from the reserve food told about in the
... By far the larger number of plant secretions belong to the class of ..."
5. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1910)
"secretions and excretions are distinguished from the reserve food told about in the
... By far the larger number of plant secretions belong to the class of ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"The Femoral Gland of Ornithorhynchus and Its secretions. ... NSW a paper on the
secretions of the femoral gland of the Ornithorhynchus was presented by CJ ..."
7. A Textbook of Human Physiology: Including a Section on Physiologic Apparatus. by Albert Philson Brubaker (1922)
"CHAPTER XIX INTERNAL secretions Internal secretions may be denned as more or ...
The internal secretions in many, if not all instances belong to a class of ..."
8. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould (1898)
"In considering the anomalies of the secretions, it must be remembered that the
ingestion of certain kinds of food and the administration of peculiar drags ..."
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