Secretions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SECRETIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SECRETION, something that is secreted
• a process by which substances are produced and discharged from a cell, gland, or organ for a particular function in the organism or for excretion
• a substance discharged by secretion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the process of segregating, elaborating, and releasing some material either functionally specialized (as saliva) or isolated for excretion (as urine); a product of secretion formed by an animal or plant; one performing a specific useful function in the organism

Words related to SECRETIONS

secreta9 secretion11

Words that contain SECRETIONS

oversecretions19 hypersecretions25 neurosecretions17

How to use SECRETIONS in a sentence

• This singular structure, besides containing water and air, is the repository or storehouse of various secretions.
• The great change of life from camping out, and the rough scenes of the forest, could not fail to disturb the functional secretions.
• The cabin seemed formed by the secretions of his being.
• Thus, the vessels containing them are often very large, as the turpentine cells of the fir tribe, in all the species of which these secretions abound.
• The secretions of plants depend upon light, and their flavour and nutritious qualities are materially altered by their exclusion from it.
• The secretions of the skin are stimulated by the treatment of that tissue, and it is visibly flushed, as it ought to be, from time to time, by ordinary active exercise.
• The other glands and their secretions likewise exercise the most profound influence upon development, growth and assimilation.
• Rather frequently, drainage for wound secretions is a difficult problem, and approximation of the divided ends of muscles is always difficult to maintain.
• We should endeavour to promote the elimination of the poison from the body by stimulating the secretions.
• Children should be discouraged as far as possible from playing games which will permit of an interchange of nasal or mouth secretions.
• Tracheobronchial secretions in excess of the amount required to moisten the inspired air, become, in certain cases, a mechanical menace to life, unless removed.
• Occasionally, very thick secretions will require removal with forceps.
• Thinner secretions may be removed by sponge-pumping.
• Besides the secretions already mentioned as being stimulated, the bile, the tears and the perspiration are increased by the exhibition of this drug.
• A stronger infusion made in cold or warm water, if drunk freely, and the patient kept warm, occasions a plentiful sweat, and promotes all the secretions in general.
• The second world-wide practice which finds its earliest record among the Egyptians is the use secretions and parts of the animal body as medicine.
• INTERNAL SECRETIONS ONE of the greatest contributions of the nineteenth century to scientific medicine was the discovery of the internal secretions of organs.

Similar words containing SECRETION without suffix s

secretion11 secretional13 secretionary17 oversecretion18 hypersecretion24 neurosecretion16 oversecretions19 hypersecretions25 neurosecretions17

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