excretion

See also: excrétion

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːʃən

Noun

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.

Related terms

• excrete
• secretion

Translations

process of removing from the body

• Afrikaans: uitskeiding
• Bengali: রেচন (bn) (recon)
• Bulgarian: отделяне (bg) n (otdeljane)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 排泄 (paai⁴ sit³)

  Hokkien: 排泄 (pâi-siat)

  Mandarin: 排泄 (zh) (páixiè)

• Czech: vylučování n
• Dutch: excretie (nl) f, uitscheiding (nl) f
• Finnish: eritys (fi), erittäminen (fi)
• French: excrétion (fr) f
• Galician: excreción (gl) f
• German: Ausscheidung (de) f, Exkretion f
• Greek: απέκκριση (el) f (apékkrisi)
• Indonesian: ekskresi (id)
• Japanese: 排泄 (ja) (はいせつ, haisetsu)
• Korean: 배설(排泄) (ko) (baeseol)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: deravêtin

• Latin: excretio f
• Malay: perkumuhan
• Persian: دفع (fa)
• Polish: wydalanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: excreção (pt) f
• Russian: выделе́ние (ru) n (vydelénije), экскре́ция (ru) f (ekskrécija)
• Spanish: excreción (es) f
• Tagalog: paluwasan, ekskresyon
• Tamil: கழிப்பு (ta) (kaḻippu)
• Telugu: విసర్జన (visarjana)
• Thai: การขับถ่าย (th)
• Vietnamese: bài tiết (vi) (排泄)

Further reading

• excretion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia