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secretion

[si-kree-shuhn] / sɪˈkri ʃən /


NOUN
substance released
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This structure, known as the type 6 secretion system, or T6SS, helps the bacteria compete with other microbes and dominate the gut.

From Science Daily Apr. 7, 2026

At the same time, genes essential for normal liver function, including those involved in metabolism and protein secretion, were gradually shut down.

From Science Daily Dec. 31, 2025

Novo’s cautious C-suite was ready to target Type 2 diabetes—an obvious choice, as GLP-1 augments insulin secretion.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

The EU has already defined dairy items as products coming from the "normal mammary secretion".

From BBC Oct. 8, 2025

From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labelled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

It was a tale about organic matter, the sound and smell of silk, wool and cotton, their inevitable decay a result of skin secretions, chemicals, light and time.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

The devastating viral infection, carried by wild birds, spreads primarily through respiratory secretions and bird-to-bird contact and can also be contracted by mammals that ingest birds or other products.

From BBC Dec. 25, 2024

But we do know infected birds can shed the virus in their saliva, nasal secretions and feces.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2024

It is unclear exactly how the cows became infected, but the most likely source is feces or other secretions from a wild bird infected with the virus.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2024

He had been in contact with the blood and secretions of fifty animals.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston




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