Concept cluster: Physical processes > Excretion
v
(obsolete) To fill, especially with divine inspiration.
v
(transitive) To make arid.
adj
(of a piece of flesh or body part) Having been torn off, as in an avulsion.
n
Any cleansing or purifying agent.
n
(euphemistic) An excretory function of an organism, usually the discharging of feces and urine.
n
(by extension) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.
n
Alternative form of defecation [The act or process of voiding feces from the bowels.]
n
The act or process of voiding feces from the bowels.
n
The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction.
n
The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.
n
(medicine, zoology) any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.
n
That which is voided; excrement.
n
(medicine, archaic) The act of relieving congestion or plethora, by purging, blood-letting, or reduction of the system by abstinence.
v
to deprive of blood; to remove the blood from
v
(intransitive, rare) To become dry; to dry up.
n
attrition; erosion by friction
adj
Exhibiting detumescence.
n
Obsolete form of digestion. [The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.]
v
(transitive) To eliminate insects, vermin, or other pests from.
n
(medicine, obsolete) The removal of waste.
v
To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces).
n
The waste which is carried out from a cell or an organism; the result of egestion; excrement
n
(biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
n
(obsolete) The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.
n
The act of emulging; a milking or draining.
n
Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
v
(transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
n
(obsolete) The act of spitting out.
v
(archaic, intransitive) To void excrement; to defecate.
n
Bodily waste which is excreted from the body.
n
An act of excretion.
n
The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
n
(medicine) death
n
A dried specimen such as that in a herbarium.
n
(obsolete) extinction
n
The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
n
The exuviated coverings; exuviae.
n
Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from a human or mammal's stomach to the intestines; excrement.
n
The adhesion of a foreign material onto a surface, especially so as to reduce its functionality.
n
thurible, censer
v
(archaic, transitive) To make moist; to moisten.
n
An act of emptying the bowels.
n
The process of parching or roasting something, such as corn.
n
The unwanted results of metabolism, expelled in the urine and faeces.

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