excretion
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6.4
- noun
- /ɪkˈskrɛʃən/
- Specialized
:
excreta
- The doctor explained that my body eliminates waste through excretion, such as urine and sweat.
- urinary excretion
- excretion of calcium
- sodium excretion
Some ants eat sweet things like nectar from flowers or even the sugary excretions of other insects like scale insects.
- Some ants eat sweet things like nectar from flowers or even the sugary excretions of other insects like scale insects.
- It's an excretion from the back of a toad that you would take that excretion and put it on glass and dry that out and then vaporize that.
Examples
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The objective of this study is to determine the influence of fruit and vegetable intake on urinary calcium excretion and bone mass in a group of early pubertal girls.
Academic text (2004) -
Urinary excretion of unchanged riluzole accounts for less than 1% of the total absorbed dose.
Academic text (2000) -
Our patient had a history of nephrolithiasis, which was later documented to be due to urate excretion.
Academic text (1995) -
In the process of compensating for changes in salinity, the fish also must adjust their intake and excretion of water.
Academic text (2004) -
Higher egg excretion has been recorded in spring and summer (Herd, 1990; Saeed et al., 2010).
Academic text (2015) -
"Fecal excretion of HEV during illness is very high, allowing a higher contamination risk."
Academic text (2015) -
In general, responses of mineral ions in serum and ion excretion in urine followed well-described patterns.
Academic text (2018) -
Interestingly, urinary calcium excretion was markedly decreased both pre- and postoperatively.
Academic text (1995) -
The negligible fecal excretion suggests a lack of uptake of mt-GCR by hepatocytes with subsequent excretion into the biliary system.
Academic text (1996) -
Nitrogen in animal feed can become a pollution source through the excretion of nitrogen-rich manure that releases gaseous ammonia into the atmosphere and leaches nitrate into local water bodies.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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6.1
Waste that leaves the body, such as poop
6
3.5
Dirty substances that people get rid of from their bodies, like urine and feces
1
8.6
Waste from the body like poop or pee
1
2.7
Things the body gets rid of, like urine, sweat, and feces
A waste that the body gets rid of like urine or sweat
Compounds
- Specialized
A medical test that measures how much radioactive iodine is in the urine to check the thyroid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Excretion comes from the Latin prefix ex- ('out') and a root that meant 'send away', so it once meant 'a thing sent out'. That's why excretion can also mean the waste (like urine, feces, or sweat) that the body sends out.