Excretion
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting. countable, uncountable
- 2 the bodily process of discharging waste matter wordnet
- 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 waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body wordnet
Example
More examples"[…] 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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.