excretion
/ɪkˈskɹiːʃən/US/ɪkˈskɹiʃən/
excretion noun: the process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
Noun
excretion (countable and uncountable, plural excretions)
- The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
- Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
- […] 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.1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32
excretion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
excretion in Hindi
- process of removing from the body
- उत्सर्जन utsarjan
excretion in Tamil
- process of removing from the body
- கழிப்பு kaḻippu
excretion in Urdu
- خروج
excretion in Bengali
- process of removing from the body
- রেচন recon
More languagesFewer languages
- excretion in Telugu
- విసర్జన visarjana
- excretion in Kannada
- ಉತ್ಸರ್ಗ
- excretion in Tagalog
- paluwasan, ekskresyon
- excretion in Malay
- perkumuhan
- excretion in Indonesian
- ekskresi
- excretion in Persian
- دفع
- excretion in Thai
- การขับถ่าย
- excretion in Vietnamese
- bài tiết
Examples of excretion in a sentence
- Unionization (lipid solubility) facilitates absorption whereas ionization (water solubility) facilitates excretion of drug.
- Most pantothenic acid-deficient laboratory animals exhibit dermatitis, achromotrichia, and nasal porphyrin excretion.
- Hypokalemia and hyperkalemia, are common electrolyte electrolyte diseases related to changes in potassium intake, excretion, or transcellular shifts.
Synonyms of excretion
Forms of excretion
| plural | excretions |
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Origin of excretion
Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.
Words formed from excretion
Words that rhyme with excretion
- accretion
- completion
- venetian
- Grecian
- concretion
- deletion
- Lutetian
- Rhaetian
- Phoenician
- secretion
- bicompletion
- hyperdepletion
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Questions about excretion
- What does excretion mean?
- Excretion means the process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
- What is excretion in Hindi?
- Excretion in Hindi is उत्सर्जन (utsarjan). See Excretion meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is excretion?
- Excretion is a noun.
- How do you pronounce excretion?
- Excretion is pronounced /ɪkˈskɹiːʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of excretion?
- The plural of excretion is excretions.
Words near excretion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: excretion (page history and authors); excretion (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excretion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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