The food must be digested, absorbed and excreted with great rapidity.
As it is largely excreted by the lungs it may be found useful in bronchial asthma.
The drug circulates in the blood in the form of an albuminate and is slowly excreted by the kidneys.
The protoplasm derives its food from substances in solution in the water; the various waste products which are incident to its life are excreted into it, and so removed from the sphere of its activity.
In the case of these red-purple bacteria the colouring matter is contained in the protoplasm of the cell, but in most chromogenic bacteria it occurs as excreted pigment on and between the cells, or is formed by their action in the medium.