SECRETORY

Definitions: SECRETORY

SECRETORY

Adjective

1. Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.

Noun

1. A secretory vessel; a secernent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SECRETORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

"SECRETORY" is a common misspelling or typo for: secretary, secretor.

Domain	Definitions
Health	Secreting; relating to or influencing secretion or the secretions. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Calcium and the secretory process (reference) Cellular and molecular biology of hormone- and neurotransmitter-containing secretory vesicles (reference) Guidebook to the Secretory Pathway (Sambrook and Tooze Guidebooks) (reference) Histochemistry of secretory processes (reference) Secretory immunity and infection : proceedings (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Nascent virions are then transported in secretory vesicles to the plasma membrane and released by exocytosis. (references)
		Histologic criteria for distinguishing Brainerd diarrhea from other chronic diarrheal syndromes were developed from outbreak-related specimens, but need to be evaluated in specimens from patients with sporadic cases of chronic idiopathic secretory diarrhea. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"SECRETORY" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.87% of the time. "SECRETORY" is used about 141 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
Adjective (general or positive)	97.87%	138	27,024
Noun (proper)	2.13%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	141	N/A

Expressions using "SECRETORY": Secretory Component ♦ secretory organ ♦ secretory otitis media ♦ secretory phase ♦ Secretory Rate ♦ Secretory Vesicles. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "SECRETORY": anti-secretory.
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Language		Translations for "SECRETORY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sekretues (excretive, excretory), tajitës. (various references)

Arabic		‏إفرازي. (various references)

Bulgarian		отделителен (excretive, excretory, secernant). (various references)

Chinese		分泌. (various references)

Czech		vymìšovácí. (various references)

Danish		sekretorisk, sekret-. (various references)

Dutch		sereuze otitis (secretory otitis media), secretoire component (secretory piece). (various references)

Farsi		غده مترشحه , تراوشی , ترشحی . (various references)

Finnish		seroosinen välikorvatulehdus (secretory otitis media), sekretorinen komponentti (secretory piece), otitis media serosa (secretory otitis media), erityselin (secretory organ). (various references)

French		sécrétoire, sécréteur (secernent, secreting, secretive). (various references)

German		sekretorisch (secretive). (various references)

Greek		εκκριτικό τεμάχιο (secretory piece), ορώδης ωτίτιδα (secretory otitis media). (various references)

Hungarian		szekréciós szerv, szekréciós, váladékképzõ, váladékképző, kiválasztó szerv, kiválasztó (excretive, excretory, secretive, selective). (various references)

Italian		secretorio. (various references)

Korean		분비 (secretion). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecretorysay

Portuguese		secretório (secernent). (various references)

Russian		секреторный, выделительный (excretory, secernent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		za izlučivanje. (various references)

Spanish		secretor, órgano secretorio. (various references)

Swedish		sekretorisk, sekret-, utsöndrings-, avsöndrings-. (various references)

Turkish		salgılayıcı, salgı bezesi, salgı (backlash, discharge, excretion, humor, humour, juice, liquor, secretion). (various references)

Ukranian		секреторний (secretive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "SECRETORY": neurosecretory, nonsecretory. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "SECRETORY" (pronounced 'Se*cre"to*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-o-r-r-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: corsetry, erectors, oysterer, secretor.
	-2 letters: erector, rectors, rectory, rescore, restore, royster, sorcery, stroyer.
	-3 letters: certes, corers, corset, coster, coyest, crores, erects, escort, oyster, rector, rectos, rerose, resect, resort, rester, retore, retros, rosery, roster, scorer, scoter, secret, sector, sorter, stereo, storey, terces, terser, toyers, yester.
	-4 letters: ceres, ceros, cetes, corer, cores, corse, coset, cosey, cotes.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-o-r-r-s-t-y"
	+1 letter: clerestory.
	+2 letters: cherrystone, persecutory.
	+3 letters: cherrystones, cyproterones, erythrocytes, intercessory, nonsecretory, psychrometer, secretionary, spectrometry.
	+4 letters: cryotherapies, electrotypers, hyperreactors, oystercatcher, psychrometers, treacherously.
	+5 letters: counterplayers, electrosurgery, hypersecretion, meretriciously, neurochemistry, neurosecretory, oystercatchers, petrochemistry, psychrometries.
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