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Definition of Secretory
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or producing a secretion. " a secretory cell"
Definition of Secretory
1. a. Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office of secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.
Definition of Secretory
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or used in secretion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Secretory
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Medical Definition of Secretory
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Secretory
Literary usage of Secretory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"GENERAL POINTS ABOUT secretory RECEPTACLES Ч The great systematic value of the
secretory receptacles was recognized at an early date. ..."
2. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"Vasomotor and localized secretory symptoms may be transiently produced ...
Lasting Vasomotor, secretory, or Trophic Symptoms, both Diffused and Localized. ..."
3. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1900)
"If we mean, when we speak of secretory nerves, secretory nerves in Ludwig's sense,
as is, I believe, generally meant, then all talk of secretory nerves ..."
4. The Work of the Digestive Glands by Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, William Henry Thompson (1902)
"The psychic secretion is the normal commencement, in the majority of cases, of
secretory activity on the part of the gastric glands. ..."
5. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene: Designed for the Colleges by Calvin Cutter (1858)
"The secretory ORGANS are the Ex-ha'lants, Follicles, and the Glands ... Givi the
anatomy of the secretory organs. 415. Name the secretory organs. 416. ..."
6. Principles and Practice of Butter-making: A Treatise on the Chemical and by George Lewis McKay (1908)
"The Mammary Gland as a secretory Organ. — The mammary gland of females belonging
... A secretory gland is one in which the raw material is obtained from the ..."
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