secretion
noun
1 secretion
The organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance.
synonym: secernment.
Roget 299:
excretion,
discharge,
emanation;
exhalation,
exudation,
extrusion,
secretion,
effusion,
extravasation [Med.],
ecchymosis [Med.];
evacuation,
dejection,
faeces,
excrement,
shit,
stools,
crap [Vulg.];
bloody flux;
cacation†;
coeliac-flux,
coeliac-passion;
dysentery;
perspiration,
sweat;
subation†,
exudation;
diaphoresis;
sewage;
eccrinology [Med.].
saliva,
spittle,
rheum;
ptyalism†,
salivation,
catarrh;
diarrhoea;
ejecta,
egesta [Biol.],
sputa;
excreta;
lava;
exuviae
etc.
(uncleanness)
653 [Lat.].
hemorrhage,
bleeding;
outpouring
etc.
(egress)
295.
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Polish: wydzielanie, sekrecja
2 secretion
A functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell.
Dutch: daarmee uit, secretie, uitscheiding, afscheiding
Polish: wydzielina organizmu, wydzielina, sekret
Moby thesaurus: burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, darkening, deception, discharge, discharging, drain, draining, dribbling, drip, dripping, drop, dropping, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection, elimination, emanating, emanation, emission, escape, excreta, excreting, excretion, extravasate, extravasation, extrusion, exudation, flow, flux, generation, hiddenness, hiding, interment, invisibility, leak, leakage, leaking, masking, mystification, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, oozing, putting away, release, running, screening, secrecy, secreting, seepage, seeping, subterfuge, transudate, transudation, trickle, trickling, uncommunicativeness ... show more.
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