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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance;
[syn: secretion, secernment]

2. a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Secretion \Se*cre"tion\, n. [L. secretio: cf. F. s['e]cr['e]tion.] 1. The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods. [1913 Webster] 2. (Physiol.) The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions. [1913 Webster] 3. (Physiol.) Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

secretion n 1: the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance [syn: secretion, secernment] 2: a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "secretion": burial, burying, clouding, concealedness, concealment, covering, covering up, covertness, darkening, deception, discharge, discharging, drain, draining, dribbling, drip, dripping, drop, dropping, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection, elimination, emanating, emanation, emission, escape, excreta, excreting, excretion, extravasate, extravasation, extrusion, exudation, flow, flux, generation, hiddenness, hiding, interment, invisibility, leak, leakage, leaking, masking, mystification, obscuration, obscurement, occultation, oozing, putting away, release, running, screening, secrecy, secreting, seepage, seeping, subterfuge, transudate, transudation, trickle, trickling, uncommunicativeness