excretory

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“It politicizes the human excretory function,” he said to even louder guffaws in the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2024

"Our research has mapped the excretory patterns of animals, spanning eight orders of scale from tiny cicadas to massive elephants," he said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2024

The cilia propel waste matter down the tubules and out of the body through excretory pores that open on the body surface; cilia also draw water from the interstitial fluid, allowing for filtration.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

There is no excretory system or organs, and nitrogenous wastes simply diffuse from the cells into the water outside the animal or in the gastrovascular cavity.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Organic matter is broken down as it passes through the digestive tracts of the worms and the soil is enriched by their excretory products.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson