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hypersecretive

hypersecretive is the alternative form of hypersecretory.

Meaning of hypersecretory

Adjective

hypersecretory (comparative more hypersecretory, superlative most hypersecretory)

  1. Involving excessive secretion
    • Mucins are produced in low levels in health but they are over produced in a number of hypersecretory disorders in which they can directly contribute to the pathogenesis and prognosis of disease.2015 September 29, “Excess Secretion of Gel-Forming Mucins and Associated Innate Defense Proteins with Defective Mucin Un-Packaging Underpin Gallbladder Mucocele Formation in Dogs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of hypersecretive

From hyper- + secretive.

Questions about hypersecretive

What is hypersecretive the alternative form of?
Hypersecretive is the alternative form of hypersecretory.

Words near hypersecretive in the dictionary

  1. hypersecreted
  2. hypersecretes
  3. hypersecreting
  4. hypersecretion
  5. hypersecretions
  6. hypersecretive
  7. hypersecretor
  8. hypersecretors
  9. hypersecretory
  10. hypersection
  11. hypersections

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