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单词 secretion
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secretionn.

/sɪˈkriːʃən/
Etymology: < French sécrétion, < Latin sēcrētiōn-em , noun of action < sēcernĕre to separate, secrete: see secern v. Compare Spanish secrecion, Portuguese secreção, Italian secrezione.
1. Physiology. In an animal or vegetable body: the action of a gland or some analogous organ in extracting certain matters from the blood or sap and elaborating from them a particular substance, either to fulfil some function within the body or to undergo excretion as waste.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > [noun]
third concoction1594
incoction1607
secretion1646
secernment1822
resecretion1830
neurosecretion1940
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiii. 137 It cannot bee called their urine; not onely because they want those parts of secretion; but because it is emitted aversly or backward, by both sexes.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Secretion, is the separation of one Fluid from another in the Body of an Animal or Vegetable, by the means of Glands or something analogous to them.
1717 P. Blair Let. 31 Aug. in Misc. Observ. (1718) 12 Its being converted into Chyle, and under-going the several Secretions throughout the Body.
1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) ii. xii. 372 Of Digestion, Respiration, and Secretion.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 18 This process of secretion varies in character.
attributive.1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 128 Intercellular spaces and secretion reservoirs.1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 34 Naunyn..concludes then, that the cholesterin of the bile is neither a product of general metabolism nor a specific secretion product of the liver.
2.
a. concrete. That which is produced by the action of a secreting organ.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun]
secretion1732
internal secretion1745
secreta1877
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 271 The Blood may be cleans'd..perhaps better by Urine than any other Secretion.
1815 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 7) II. i. xxiii. 327 The solids and fluids, thus produced, are sometimes elaborated by complicated organs called glands, and are then termed secretions.
1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 222 A passage through which the peculiar secretions may, when elaborated, arrive at the stations where they are finally to be deposited.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind vii. 177 The milky secretion from a small frog or toad.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 568 When pollination takes place it [the Stigma] is covered with a viscid secretion.
b. transferred and figurative.
ΚΠ
1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 12 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Poetry is a natural or morbid Secretion from the Brain.
1823 C. Lamb Praise of Chimney-sweepers in Elia 253 So may thy culinary fires, eased of the o'er-charged secretions from thy worse-placed hospitalities, curl up a lighter volume to the welkin.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. vi. 139 There have come down to us, from a long extinct race of men, those actual secretions of their daily life, which furnish colouring matter for a picture of them.
3. In etymological sense:
a. Separation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun]
asunderingeOE
sheddingc1175
twinning?c1225
departingc1300
sunderinga1325
to-dighting1340
partingc1350
disseverancec1374
divisionc1374
severinga1382
departitionc1400
separation1413
sunderance1435
departisonc1440
deceperationa1450
severance1467
dissevering1488
dissever?1507
departurec1515
dividing1526
partition1530
sejunction1532
separatinga1557
sequestration1567
decision1574
divorce1593
disseveration16..
dissevermenta1603
sunderment1603
disparting1611
disunition1611
singling1625
divide1642
severation1649
concisure1656
department1677
secretion1696
abgregation1730
disengagement1791
disassociation1825
dispartment1869
dissociation1877
secernment1894
breakaway1897
delinkage1973
1696 T. Brookhouse Temple Opened 58 The Extrusion of the Poor Reffugies was only an Act of Secretion By Him who has his Fan in his hand, who..dispersed them abroad, not for their Ruine but their Safety.
b. Philosophy (= Greek ἀπόκρισις) Giving off of particles. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission > emission of particles
secretion1678
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 8 Generation and Corruption may be sufficiently explained by Concretion and Secretion, or Local Motion, without Substantial Forms and Qualities.
4. Geology. (See quot. 1882.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [noun] > intrusion
intrusion1839
secretion1882
1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (1885) ii. ii. iv. 96 In a true concretion, the material at the centre has been deposited first, and has increased by additions from without... Where, on the other hand, cavities..have been filled up by the deposition of materials on their walls, and gradual growth inward, the result is known as a secretion.

Derivatives

seˈcretional adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > [adjective]
secretory1692
secretitious1696
secretious1707
secerning1708
secreting1807
secernent1822
secretional1877
neurocrine1925
neurosecretory1936
1877 A. W. Bennett tr. O. W. Thomé Text-bk. Struct. & Physiol. Bot. v. 224 But diseases are also caused through the influence of the soil, depending on an abnormal transformation of those substances out of which the tissue of the plant is constructed. These constitute what are called secretional diseases.
seˈcretionary adj. relating to secretion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [adjective] > intrusive
subsequent1789
intruded1833
intrusive1844
anogenic1878
secretionary1888
lit-par-lit1896
stoped1932
1888 J. J. H. Teall Brit. Petrogr. 447 Secretionary, a term used to express a growth from without inwards, in contradistinction to concretionary.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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