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EXCRETION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bodily process of discharging waste matter

Synonyms:

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("excretion" is a kind of...):

discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excretion"):

defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)

incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)

micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)

Derivation:

excrete (eliminate from the body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

Synonyms:

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("excretion" is a kind of...):

waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excretion"):

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

fecula (excreta (especially of insects))

wormcast (cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm)

human waste (the body wastes of human beings)

pee; piddle; piss; urine; water; weewee (liquid excretory product)

barf; puke; vomit; vomitus (the matter ejected in vomiting)

guano (the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer)

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 Context examples: 

The percentage of the area under the urine excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity observed from Tlast to infinity.

(Observed Area Under the Urinary Excretion Rate Curve Percent Extrapolation, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) from the last observed non-zero rate value to infinity as a percentage of the area under the urinary excretion rate curve extrapolated to infinity.

(Observed Area Under the Urinary Excretion Rate Curve Percent Extrapolation, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The characteristic movements of drugs within biological systems, as affected by absorption, distribution, binding, elimination, biotransformation, and excretion; particularly the rates of such movements.

(Pharmacokinetics, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to the introduction of a polar functional group to the compound, enhances their water solubility and renal excretion.

(Phase I Enzymes Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the volume of serum or plasma that would be cleared of phosphate by excretion of urine for a specified unit of time (e.g. one minute).

(Phosphate Clearance Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Pivopril also decreases angiotensin II-induced aldosterone secretion by the adrenal cortex, which leads to an increase in sodium excretion and subsequently increases water outflow.

(Pivopril, NCI Thesaurus)

Pentoprilat also decreases angiotensin II-induced aldosterone secretion by the adrenal cortex, which leads to an increase in sodium excretion and subsequently increases water outflow.

(Pentopril, NCI Thesaurus)

As a degradation product of penicillin antibiotics, penicillamine chelates with heavy metals and increases their urinary excretion.

(Penicillamine, NCI Thesaurus)

This prevents angiotensin II-induced vasoconstriction and interferes with angiotensin II-mediated aldosterone secretion, thereby decreasing aldosterone production and preventing aldosterone-stimulated sodium retention and potassium excretion.

(Olmesartan, NCI Thesaurus)

This prevents angiotensin II-induced vasoconstriction and decreases aldosterone production, thereby preventing aldosterone-stimulated sodium retention and potassium excretion.

(Olmesartan Medoxomil, NCI Thesaurus)