excreta vs excretion what difference
what is difference between excreta and excretion
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪkˈskɹiːtə/
Noun
excreta pl (plural only)
- Bodily waste which is excreted from the body.
Anagrams
- exacter
Catalan
Verb
excreta
- third-person singular present indicative form of excretar
- second-person singular imperative form of excretar
Latin
Participle
excrēta
- nominative feminine singular of excrētus
- nominative neuter plural of excrētus
- accusative neuter plural of excrētus
- vocative feminine singular of excrētus
- vocative neuter plural of excrētus
Participle
excrētā
- ablative feminine singular of excrētus
References
- excreta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Verb
excreta
- third-person singular present indicative of excretar
- second-person singular imperative of excretar
Romanian
Etymology
From French excréter.
Verb
a excreta (third-person singular present excretez, past participle excretat) 1st conj.
- to excrete
Conjugation
Spanish
Verb
excreta
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of excretar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of excretar.
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)
- The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
- Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
- 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.
- 1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science (page 32)
Related terms
- excrete
- secretion
Translations
Further reading
- excretion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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