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Excretory   /ˈɛkskrətˌɔri/   Listen
Excretory

adjective
1.
Of or relating to the process of excretion.



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"Excretory" Quotes from Famous Books



... draws our locomotives and our great ships. Similarly in our bodies, our lungs bring in the oxygen and the heart and blood-vessels carry the fuel and the oxygen to every part of the body. But every furnace requires a smoke-stack to carry off the waste, and, similarly, we must have in our bodies an excretory system to remove the waste of the burned-up material and of the used-up tissue of the heart, muscles and nerves. This constitutes the digestive system; the lungs, the excretory system and the circulatory system are ...
— Parent and Child Vol. III., Child Study and Training • Mosiah Hall

... indigestion and constipation, which are chiefly due to improper eating habits. Some of the contributory causes are wrong thinking, too little exercise, lack of fresh air, and ingestion of sedatives and stimulants which upset the assimilative and excretory functions of the body. In all cases the blood is unclean. The patient is suffering from ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker



Words linked to "Excretory" :   excrete, excretory product, excretory organ, excretion



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