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What does excrete mean?

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  1. (biology) to discharge material (including waste products) from a cell, body or system
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Diuretics can cause quite dramatic temporary weight loss by causing the body to excrete water.
At Lethbridge, female sheep keds have been found to excrete xanthine and hypoxanthine as well as uric acid.
Tritiated corticosterone was used to determine how one male and one female stonechat metabolize and excrete that steroid.
The kidneys filter and process the blood and excrete the waste products as urine.
Then these bacteria excrete organic material to the clam and the clam can use that organic material as a food source.
Excessive amounts of alcohol decrease the kidneys' ability to excrete uric acid.

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