What is "secrete"

Usage examples of "secrete".

In such positions the growth of forms which secrete solid skeletons is so rapid that great walls of their remains accumulate next the shore, the mass being built outwardly by successive growths until the realm of the land may be extended for scores of miles into the deep.

Instead, acetylcholine is secreted at the nerve-cell membrane and acts upon the spot.

I would have secreted them away and procured your annulment before you had even arrived.

Chancing to meet with one of his acquaintance at a certain coffee-house, the discourse turned upon the characters of mankind, when, among other oddities, his friend brought upon the carpet a certain old gentlewoman of such a rapacious disposition, that, like a jackdaw, she never beheld any metalline substance, without an inclination, and even an effort to secrete it for her own use and contemplation.

Illa knew, spread for acres, holding the soil and secreting microfauna to defend against native parasites and rework the local minerals into compatible nutrients.

An example would be the bacteria that secrete penicillinase, which is an enzyme that destroys penicillin.

Between the two layers of the pericardium is secreted a liquid which prevents friction from the movements of the heart.

I was ordered three times to fly nonstop from Tokyo to New York, a flight of about the same duration, but because I was crossing ten time zones, my pineal gland secreted melatonin so abnormally that it required me four to five days to bring it back into balance.

Forams are essentially amoebas that secrete a calcareous shell, while radiolarians grow glassy shells, often shaped like pincushions.

No doubt much more acid would have been secreted had the leaves been excited by animal matter, but this would have rendered the analysis more difficult.

This fact probably indicates that the ferment is not secreted until the glands are excited by the absorption of a minute quantity of already soluble animal matter,a conclusion which is supported by what we shall hereafter see with respect to Dionaea.

The acid seems to be secreted quickly, for in one case the secretion from the discal glands, on which a little powdered casein had been strewed, coloured litmus paper, before any of the exterior tentacles were inflected.

No mucus had been secreted, and the surrounding fluid was only just perceptibly tinted of a pale pink.

On the other hand, propionic acid, which is poisonous, does not cause much mucus to be secreted, yet the surrounding fluid became slightly pink.

The secretion dissolves bone, and even the enamel of teeth, but this is simply due to the large quantity of acid secreted, owing, apparently, to the desire of the plant for phosphorus.