单词 | secretion |
释义 | secretionn. 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. 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. 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. 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