What is "excreted"

Usage examples of "excreted".

Let us now suppose a little sweet juice or nectar to be excreted by the inner bases of the petals of a flower.

The phosphate ion does not remain in the blood but is excreted through the urine.

Any excess calcium beyond what is needed is excreted through the urine.

Thus, sodium ion concentration in the blood falls because too much is excreted in the urine and potassium ion concentration rises because too much escapes into the blood from the cells, where it is usually firmly retained.

To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through its ventilators.

Almost all the hooved animals in Germany had been killed and eaten and excreted by human beings, mostly soldiers.

The workers derived part of their energy from the glucose excreted by the roots of the trees.

The waste products were excreted through the skin or emptied through the canal in the tongue.

When they got to the bottom, they would be excreted, no doubt, just as the indigestible part of their clothing and equipment had been.

It held a race of silicon-based life forms that inhaled ammonia, excreted a carbon compound, and had a very viable economy that was based predominantly on rare metals.

But it did possess one thing that made it invaluable: a body chemistry that inhaled a carbon dioxide compound, exhaled an oxygen-nitrogen compound, ingested the constituents of human waste, and excreted the constituents of human nourishment.