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Definition: Secretion |
SecretionNoun1. The organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance. 2. A functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "secretion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | 1. the process of elaborating a specific product as a result of the activity of a gland; this activity may range from separating a specific substance of the blood to the elaboration of a new chemical substance. 2. any substance produced by secretion. (references) |
Medicine | The function of glandular organs by which their epithelial cells manufacture certain chemical substances, especially enzymes, that are useful in further chemical processes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The act or process by which animals and plants transform mineral material from solution into skeletal forms b. A secondary structure formed of material deposited from solution within a cavity in a rock, esp. a deposit formed on or parallel to the walls of the cavity; e.g., a mineral vein, an amygdule, or a geode. The space maybe completely or only partly filled. CF:concretion e.g., a mineral vein, an amygdule, or a geode. The space maybe completely or only partly filled. CF:concretion. (references) |
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Synonym: SecretionSynonym: secernment (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excretion | Noun: excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, stools, crap; bloody flux; cacation; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion; dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation, exudation; diaphoresis; sewage; eccrinology. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mechanisms of Secretion of Neurotransmitters and Hormones. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | H2 blockers work by blocking histamine, which stimulates acid secretion. (references) | |
Delta cells secrete the hormone somatostatin, which inhibits insulin and glucagon secretion. (references) | ||
Prolactin secretion in the pituitary is normally suppressed by the brain chemical, dopamine. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse. His understanding was so keen That all things which he'd felt, heard, seen, He could interpret without fail If he was in or out of jail. He wrote at Inspiration's call Deep disquisitions on them all, Then, pent at last in an asylum, Performed the service to compile 'em. So great a writer, all men swore, They never had not read before. Jorrock Wormley |
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| "Secretion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Secretion" is used about 849 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 849 | 8,302 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "secretion": adrenaline secretion ♦ endocrine secretion ♦ Foot secretion ♦ hormone secretion ♦ internal secretion ♦ lachrymal secretion ♦ lacrimal secretion ♦ mucous secretion ♦ paralytic secretion. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "secretion": internal-secretion, over-secretion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "secretion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afskeiding (partition, separation). (various references) | |
Albanian | sekretim (excrement, excretion), sekrecion (rheum), tajitje, fshehje (concealment, disguise, dissimulation, hiding). (various references) | |
Arabic | تكتم (reserve, reticence, secrecy, slyness), إفراز (excretion), إخفاء (concealment, disguise, dissimulation, hiding). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | укриване (concealment, hiding), скриване (concealment), секреция (rheum), секрет (discharge, emission, matter), отделяне (breakaway, detachment, disconnection, disconnexion, disengagement, disseverance, divorcement, emanation, emission, evolution, excretion, exudation, generation, isolation, partition, release, scission, secession, separation, severance). (various references) | |
Chinese | 分泌物. (various references) | |
Czech | vymìšování (excretion), vyluèování. (various references) | |
Danish | sekretion (elimination, excretion). (various references) | |
Dutch | afscheiding (breakaway, partition, secession, separation). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sekrecio. (various references) | |
Finnish | rähmä, eritys (excretion), erite (excretion). (various references) | |
French | sécrétion. (various references) | |
German | Sekretion, Sekret, Absonderung (abstraction, dissociation, emission, isolation, reject, seclusion, segregation, separation, severance). (various references) | |
Greek | έκκριση (excretion, exudation, secrete), απόκρυψη (conceal, concealment, hiding, occultation, secrete, suppression). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשלשת, חומר "פרש", זוב (discharge, flow, flux), "פרש" (allocation, allowance, discharge, eccrisis, slops), "סתר" (concealment, hiding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | váladék (eduction, excretion, matter, ooze, phlegm), kiválasztás (choice, eduction, excretion, selection, sorting), rejtegetés (concealment, hiding), elválasztás (disassociation, disconnexion, disembodiment, disjunction, disseverance, separation, severance). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengeluaran (excision, exclusion, excretion, expenditure, outgo, outgoings, spending). (various references) | |
Italian | secrezione (excretion), eliminazione (disposal, elimination, excrement, removal). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 分泌. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぶ"ぴぶつ, ぶ"ぴつぶつ, ぶ"ぴつえき, ぶ"ぴつ (literary activity, literary art, subdivision, writing), ぶ"ぴ. (various references) | |
Korean | 분비 (Secretory). (various references) | |
Manx | taal (adze). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecretionsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | secreção (liquor). (various references) | |
Romanian | secreţie (emission, lactation, water), tãinuire (concealment, reservation). (various references) | |
Russian | секреция. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sekret, tajenje, lučenje (eradiation). (various references) | |
Spanish | secreción (discharge). (various references) | |
Swedish | avsöndring (discharge, elimination, excretion). (various references) | |
Turkish | salgılama (discharge), salgı (backlash, discharge, excretion, humor, humour, juice, liquor, secretory), saklama (concealment, hiding, preservation, safekeeping, storage), sır tutma (concealment, discreetness, hugger mugger, huggermugger, keeping secret, reticence, seal, secrecy, secretiveness, silence), gizleme (camouflage, concealment, dissimulation, hiding, suppression). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | секреція, приховування (concealment, dissimulation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự cất giấu, chất tiết. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "secretion": secretionary, secretions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "secretion": hypersecretion, neurosecretion, oversecretion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "secretion": hypersecretions, neurosecretions, oversecretions. (additional references) | |
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"Secretion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dsecretion, ecretion, osireion, scretion, sefcredian, segration, segretion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "secretion" (pronounced sukrē"shun) |
| 7 | -u k r ē" sh u n | accretion. |
| 6 | -k r ē" sh u n | excretion. |
| 4 | -ē" sh u n | carburetion, completion, deletion, depletion, venetian. |
| 3 | -sh u n | facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, fission, abrogation, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition, action, activation, adaptation, addiction, addition, adjudication, administration, admiration, admission, admonition, adoption, adoration, adulation, advection, advocation, affectation, affection, affiliation, affirmation, affliction, agglomeration, aggravation, aggression, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, ambition, amelioration, ammunition, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, apparition, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, circumspection, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, clinician, coagulation, coalition, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cognition, cohabitation, collaboration, collection, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commission, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, competition, compilation, complexion, complication, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, condition, conduction, confabulation, confection, confederation, confession, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crucifixion, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, deduction, defamation, defection, definition, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depopulation, deportation, deposition, depravation, depreciation, depredation, depression, deprivation, deregulation, dereliction, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, dietitian, differentiation, diffraction, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, discoloration, disconnection, discontinuation, discretion, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinfection, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disposition, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, edition, education, egyptian, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrician, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emission, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erection, erudition, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, eviction, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expression, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, extrapolation, fabrication, fixation, flexion, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fraction, fragmentation, freshen, friction, fruition, frustration, fumigation, function, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, geriatrician, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hessian, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, ignition, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, imperfection, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, imposition, impregnation, impression, improvisation, imputation, inaction, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indiscretion, indoctrination, induction, industrialization, infarction, infatuation, infection, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, inflection, infliction, information, infraction, inhabitation, inhalation, inhibition, initiation, injection, injunction, innovation, inoculation, inquisition, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspection, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instruction, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, insurrection, integration, intensification, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intersection, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, introduction, introspection, intuition, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, junction, jurisdiction, justification, juxtaposition, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liposuction, liquefaction, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, logician, lotion, lubrication, machination, magician, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malfunction, malnutrition, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misimpression, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mission, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, mortician, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, munition, musician, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nonaggression, nondiscrimination, nonfiction, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, nutrition, obfuscation, objection, obligation, observation, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, occupation, ocean, omission, operation, opposition, oppression, optician, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overexpansion, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, perforation, permission, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, precipitation, preconception, precondition, predestination, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, prefabrication, preignition, premeditation, premonition, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, procession, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, production, profanation, profession, prognostication, progression, prohibition, projection, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protection, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaction, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recession, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recognition, recollection, recommendation, reconciliation, recondition, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, reconstruction, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reflection, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regression, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reimposition, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinspection, reintegration, reinterpretation, reintroduction, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejection, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remission, remuneration, renationalization, rendition, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, repetition, replication, reposition, repossession, representation, repression, reproduction, repudiation, reputation, requisition, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, restriction, resumption, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secession, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subscription, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, subtraction, suburbanization, succession, suction, suffocation, summation, superstation, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, theoretician, titian, titillation, toleration, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transformation, transgression, transillumination, transition, translation, transmission, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, tuition, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, volition, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: erections, neoterics, resection. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cointers, corniest, coteries, enticers, erection, esoteric, neoteric, noticers, oneriest, secretin, seicento, serotine. | |
-2 letters: cenotes, centers, centres, cerites, cistern, cistron, citrons, coesite, coiners, cointer, cornets, cortins, coterie, cretins, cronies, encores, enteric, enticer, entices, entires, entries, erotics, estrone, necrose, norites, noticer, notices, oestrin, orceins, orients, recites, recoins, retines, section, senecio, sincere, stonier, tenrecs, tierces. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: centrioles, coresident, cornetcies, estrogenic, excretions, receptions, refections, rejections, resections, secretions, ventricose. | |
+2 letters: auctioneers, baronetcies, clinometers, concertizes, concretizes, considerate, copresident, coresidents, desecration, egocentrics, egocentrism, electronics, excerptions, execrations, fictioneers, insectivore, intercessor, intercourse, neocortices, nonreceipts, perceptions, perfections, persecution, prelections, recreations, reelections, reflections. | |
+3 letters: actinometers, celebrations, cerebrations, commentaries, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, containerise, contriteness, convertibles, copresenting, copresidents, corecipients, countercries, counterfeits, counterfires, countermines, counterpoise, counterspies, counterviews, crenelations, deprecations, derelictions, desecrations, disconcerted, divorcements, econometrics, econometrist, egocentrisms, eigenvectors, electioneers, evisceration, executioners, exorbitances, frontispiece, greenockites, insectivores, inspectorate, interceptors, intercession, intercessors, intercessory, intercoolers, intercourses, intercrossed, intercrosses, interjectors, intersection, intersociety, intolerances, introspected, kinetochores, lectionaries, neorealistic, neurochemist, neuroleptics, nonelectrics, persecutions, preelections, prepotencies, preselection, receptionist, reconnoiters, reconnoitres, reconstitute, redirections, rediscounted, reeducations, reescalation, reinfections, reinjections, reinoculates, reinspection, reintroduces, resurrection, retrocession, rodenticides, secretionary, serotonergic, stereophonic, stereopticon, telocentrics, tensiometric, theocentrism, thermoclines. | |
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