Associations to the word «Secretion»

Wiktionary

SECRETION, noun. (countable) any substance that is secreted by an organism
SECRETION, noun. (uncountable) the act of secreting a substance, especially from a gland
SECRETION, noun. The act of hiding something

Dictionary definition

SECRETION, noun. The organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance.
SECRETION, noun. A functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope