2. Verb. (present participle of secrete) ¹
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Definition of Secreting
1. secrete [v] - See also: secrete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secreting
Literary usage of Secreting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1842)
"The discovery of the secreting agency of the primitive cell does not remove the
principal mystery in which the function has always been involved; ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"Secreting GLANDS. The secreting glands are organs whose cells produce, bv tne
metabolism ... The essential parts, therefore, of a secreting gland are cells, ..."
3. Hand-book of physiology by William Senhouse Kirkes (1872)
"Nerve-fibres are distributed both to the bloodvessels of the gland and to its
ducte; and, in some glands, it is said, to the secreting cells also. ..."
4. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"The intimate physiological relationship between the sympathetic nervous system
and the adrenalin-secreting cells of the medulla of the suprarenal body is ..."
5. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"... Secreting —s. Substance of the kidney, see Kidney. ... Secreting. SECRE'TING,
Secreto' rial, Secer'ning, Se'- cer'nent, Secre'tory or ..."
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