Definition of Secreting

1. Verb. (American English) (present participle of secret) ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of secrete) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Secreting

1. secrete [v] - See also: secrete

Lexicographical Neighbors of Secreting

secretarybirds
secretarying
secretarylike
secretaryship
secretaryships
secretase
secrete
secrete-metory
secreted
secreter
secreters
secretes
secretest
secretin
secretin test
secreting (current term)
secretins
secretion
secretion vector
secretionary
secretions
secretist
secretists
secretitious
secretive
secretively
secretiveness
secretivenesses
secretly
secretness

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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