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Secretory

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or producing a secretion.



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"Secretory" Quotes from Famous Books



... from a many-layered epithelium to a mucous epithelium, consisting of a single layer of endodermal cells, frequently thrown into pits or projecting as processes; from being chiefly protective, it has become secretory and absorbing, and maintains this character to the distal extremity where it passes into the epiblast of the proctodaeum. In most cases the course of the alimentary canal from the distal end of the oesophagus to the cloaca ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... stimulation. Organs, whose actions are associated with others, are frequently more affected than the organ, which is stimulated into too violent action. See Sect. XXIV. 2. 8. Hence in drunken people it generally happens, that the secretory vessels of the liver become first paralytic, and a torpor with consequent gall-stones or schirrus of this viscus is induced with concomitant jaundice; otherwise it becomes inflamed in consequence of previous ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin


Words linked to "Secretory" :   secretion, secretory organ


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