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SECRE'TION, n.
1. The act of secerning; the act of the producing from the blood substances different from the blood itself, or from any of its constituents, as bile, saliva, mucus, urine, &c. This was considered 0by the older physiologists as merely separation from the blood of certain substances previously contained in it; the literal meaning of secretion. But this opinion is generally exploded. The organs of secretion are of very various form and structure, but the most general are called glands.
2. The matter secreted, as mucus, perspirable matter, &c.
The
act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable
goods.
The act of secreting; the
process by which material is separated from the blood through the
agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells
into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the
saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the
different glands, and hence are formed the various
secretions.
Any substance or fluid
secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
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