excretion

Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈskɹiːʃən/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈskɹiʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪkˈskɹiːʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əkˈskɹiːʃən/
• Rhymes: -iːʃən

excretion (countable and uncountable, plural excretions)

1. The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
2. Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.

   Synonyms: excrement, excretum

   • 1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32:

     […] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.

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