excretion

Example Sentences

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In the body, drug damage often shows up in the liver because it breaks down drugs for excretion.

From Science Magazine

At times, she doesn’t seem to have an actual body with all its discombobulating humiliations, desires, excretions and surprises.

From Washington Post

Physiological changes that occur with aging leave older adults more vulnerable to the ill effects of alcohol and drugs, as metabolism and excretion of substances slow down, increasing the risk of toxicity.

From New York Times

Individual excretions are small, but when they happen on such an enormous scale, they take on global biogeochemical significance.

From Scientific American

Instead he encourages our empathy with one man’s intense embarrassment and anxiety — all-too-relatable feelings that Stones attempts to exorcise, at one point, by laying his own body and its excretions on the altar of art.

From Los Angeles Times