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secretion

/si-kree-shuhn/US // sɪˈkri ʃən //UK // (sɪˈkriːʃən) //

分泌物,分泌,分离,泌尿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
    • : the product of this act or process.

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Examples

  • Jillian, who has always had an independent spirit, cannot clear secretions from her lungs on her own and requires round-the-clock care in the family’s home, which has been transformed to meet her needs.

  • Everts’ plunge into sweat is full of energy, and her open curiosity about our much-maligned bodily secretion leaks onto every page.

  • And, he adds, its lower production of short, blue wavelengths should reduce its effect on someone’s nighttime secretion of melatonin.

  • RSV causes secretions that flood the lungs, clogging up their airways.

  • Putty-colored or "acholic" stools occur when bile is deficient, either from obstruction to outflow or from deficient secretion.

  • The animals become indisposed, and the secretion of milk is much lessened.

  • Though, of course, there is the possibility that literature is a morbid secretion, and abhors health!

  • This cage is lined within by a smooth membrane which is kept constantly moist by its own secretion.

  • Expectorantia, L. Medicines that promote the secretion of the trachial and bronchial mucus.