excretion

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In her 2024 Booker Prize-winning novel Orbital, author Samantha Harvey puts it more lyrically: "A robot has no need for hydration, nutrients, excretion, sleep… It wants and asks for nothing."

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

Scientists have widely studied how creatures across the animal kingdom eat and drink, but few have delved into the mysteries of fluid excretion.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024

For more than three decades, thiazide diuretics, a common medication used for high blood pressure, have been the standard of care for kidney stone prevention because they reduce the excretion of urinary calcium.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2023

This lipoprotein helps remove excess cholesterol from the bloodstream and transports it back to the liver for processing and excretion.

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2023

This plant, which the purist would doubtless consider a weed in any rosebed, releases an excretion from its roots that kills the soil nematodes.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson