Excretion Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭk-skrēshən
The product of excretion
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. excrement
  2. excreta
  3. waste matter
  4. body waste
  5. feces
  6. excretory product

Words Related to Excretion

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Excretion Sentence Examples

  • During excretion they irritate the kidneys and the sweat-glands, and thereby increase the excretion of urine and of sweat.

  • This, like the excretion of the sundew and other insectivorous plants, contains a digestive ferment (or enzyme) which renders the nitrogenous substances of the body of the insect soluble, and capable of absorption by the leaf.

  • When these are excited by the settling of an insect on the leaf they slowly bend over and imprison the intruder, which is detained there meanwhile by a sticky excretion poured out by the glands.

  • Small insects settle on the leaves and are caught in the viscid excretion.

  • Salicylic acid and salicin (q.v.) share the properties common to the group of aromatic acids, which, as a group, are antiseptic without being toxic to man - a property practically unique; are unstable in the body; are antipyretic and analgesic; and diminish the excretion of urea by the kidneys.

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