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Excretion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the bodily process of discharging waste matter wordnet
  3. 3
    Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces. countable, uncountable

    "[…] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state."

  4. 4
    waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.

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