EXCRETION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excretion mean? 

• EXCRETION (noun)
  The noun EXCRETION has 2 senses:

1. the bodily process of discharging waste matter

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

  Familiarity information: EXCRETION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCRETION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bodily process of discharging waste matter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

elimination; evacuation; excreting; excretion; voiding

Hypernyms ("excretion" is a kind of...):

discharge; emission; expelling (any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excretion"):

defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)

incontinence; incontinency (involuntary urination or defecation)

micturition; urination (the discharge of urine)

Derivation:

excrete (eliminate from the body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product

Hypernyms ("excretion" is a kind of...):

waste; waste material; waste matter; waste product (any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excretion"):

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

fecula (excreta (especially of insects))

wormcast (cylindrical mass of earth voided by a burrowing earthworm or lugworm)

human waste (the body wastes of human beings)

pee; piddle; piss; urine; water; weewee (liquid excretory product)

barf; puke; vomit; vomitus (the matter ejected in vomiting)

guano (the excrement of sea birds; used as fertilizer)

 Context examples 

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last observed excretion rate, divided by the dose.

(AURC Infinity Observed Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last observed excretion rate, divided by the surface area.

(AURC Infinity Observed Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

Naveglitazar and its metabolites are primarily eliminated via biliary excretion.

(Naveglitazar, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last observed excretion rate.

(Observed Area Under the Urinary Excretion Rate Curve infinity, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by the weight.

(AURC from T1 to T2 Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

While it prevents saturated fatty acids from accumulating in the liver, it also promotes the excretion of fatty acids from the liver into the blood stream.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) from time zero to the last measurable rate, divided by the dose.

(AURC Dosing to Last Concentration Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) from time zero to the last measurable rate, divided by the surface area.

(AURC Dosing to Last Concentration Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) from time zero to the last measurable rate, divided by the weight.

(AURC Dosing to Last Concentration Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by the dose.

(AURC from T1 to T2 Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus)