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/ɛkskɹˈɛtəɹˌi/
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[ US /ˈɛkskɹəˌtɔɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɛkskɹəˌtɔɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the process of excretion
How To Use excretory In A Sentence
- Each lobule consists of a number of acini, lined by columnar epithelial cells, opening into one duct, which joins with the ducts of other lobules outside the gland to form the single excretory duct. XI. Splanchnology. 3c. 7. The Bulbourethral Glands
- From where Solomon stood, he could see several of the folk squirm in response to having lost all excretory control.
- Thus, it is no easy task to exceed the renal water excretory capacity.
- Mammalian examples are the intertwining of the alimentary and digestive systems or the reproductive and excretory systems, which often require medical intervention.
- He was led to enunciate the following theses: -- [450] (1) that the mouth and anus of Vermes, Mollusca, Arthopoda, and probably Vertebrata, is derived from the elongated mouth of an ancestor resembling the Actinozoa; (2) that somites are derived from a series of archenteric pouches, like those of Actinozoa and Medusæ; (3) that excretory organs (nephridia, segmental organs) are derived from parts of these pouches which in the ancestral form, as in many polyps, were connected by a circular or longitudinal canal, and opened to the exterior by pores. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
- Notice that there is no muscle, gut, excretory, reproductive or endocrine tissue represented in the figure.
- When alcohol or any other substance, introduced into the blood, retards the tissue waste, as shown by the diminished amount of excretory products, it must do so by either diminishing the amount of free oxygen in the blood, by impairing the vasomotor and trophic nerve functions or by direct impairment of the properties of the nuclein or protogen elements of the blood and tissues. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
- A central excretory bladder and more peripheral cecum were present.
- Inside the gland, multiple follicle pouches join to form excretory ducts, which empty into the urethra.
- In the resection specimen, irregular zones of fibrosis and a dilatation of the glandular excretory duct system were grossly evident.