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secretor
  1. A person who or animal that secretes (emits a bodily fluid).
  2. A person who secretes comparatively large quantities of blood-group antigens in their bodily fluids.
  3. (physiology) A cell, tissue or organ such as a gland, that produces a bodily secretion.
  4. Examples:
    1. “We investigated a possible selection on ABH secretor phenotypes during intrauterine life.”
      “Lewis and secretor gene dosages affect CA19-9 and DU-PAN-2 serum levels in normal individuals and colorectal cancer patients.”
      “Heterogeneity of the human secretor a fucosyltransferase gene among Lewis non-secretors.”
secret
  1. (countable, uncountable) Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden. [from later 14th c.]
  2. (uncountable) Something not understood or known.
  3. (plural) The genital organs.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Many people claim to know the secret to happiness. But what if there's no such thing?”
      “Authorities have been trying to keep details of the incident a secret from the public.”
      “The secret to achieving your goals is hard work and meticulous planning.”
secrecy
  1. Concealment; the condition of being secret or hidden.
  2. The habit of keeping secrets.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Kennedy had fought hard to maintain the secrecy of his business dealings.”
      “The assignor is implicitly and legally bound to maintain the secrecy of the information contained in the trade secrets.”
      “After holding two hearings in the secrecy of his chambers, Peckham had the lawyers come to his courtroom on July 16, 1984, to hear his decision.”
secretion
  1. (countable) any substance that is secreted by an organism
  2. (uncountable) the act of secreting a substance, especially from a gland
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “There also is decreased chloride secretion into the airways and increased sodium and water reabsorption from the airway lumens.”
      “One can collect the secretion from the large glands separately, with or without stimulation.”
      “Specially-made items of clothing may be worn for secretion of the stolen evidence.”
secretness
  1. Quality of being secret.
  2. (archaic) Secrecy.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “As a result, duplicity and secretness became essential components of their identity.”
      “By James Dickey The New Yorker, December 2, 1961P. 58 Now secretness dies of the open.”
      “When I got into the whole thing, I was working as a barman, and it was the secretness of the paramilitaries that was the appeal.”
secretagogin
  1. (biochemistry) A secreted calcium-binding protein found in the cytoplasm
secretagogue
  1. A substance (such as a hormone) that stimulates secretion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To visualize individual cells with their own discharged trichocysts, a saturated solution of picric acid is used as a fixing secretagogue.”
      “The combination of an insulin secretagogue and an insulin sensitizer addresses both processes.”
      “If all the peptides present in a single propeptide are processed and released this would lead to a complex secretagogue.”
secretiveness
  1. The state or characteristic of being secretive.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The secretiveness and deceptiveness of the patients made the diagnosis difficult for those who were unaware of this tendency.”
      “So when it came to naming the shop, the pair decided to turn its secretiveness into an asset.”
      “Apart from anything else, this secretiveness adds up to the cardinal sin of security by obscurity.”
secretogogue
  1. Alternative form of secretagogue
  2. Examples:
    1. “The new insulin secretogogue repaglinide can be used in patients with impaired renal function.”
      “In addition to increasing restorative sleep, Xyrem may be a growth hormone secretogogue and may therefore produce symptomatic relief.”
secretability
  1. The quality of being secretable.
secreter
  1. Alternative spelling of secretor
  2. Synonyms:
secretist
  1. (obsolete) A dealer in secrets.
secresy
  1. Obsolete spelling of secrecy
  2. Examples:
    1. “At the same time she did not deem any secresy of her admiration essential to a compatibility with modesty.”
      “We have to thank the man for not subjecting us to a pledge of secresy.”
secretion
  1. the act of hiding something
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There also is decreased chloride secretion into the airways and increased sodium and water reabsorption from the airway lumens.”
      “One can collect the secretion from the large glands separately, with or without stimulation.”
      “Specially-made items of clothing may be worn for secretion of the stolen evidence.”
secretogogues
  1. plural of secretogogue
secretagogues
  1. plural of secretagogue
  2. Examples:
    1. “In vitro, they reduce the ciliary efficiency, and are potent airway mucus secretagogues.”
      “They may be recruited by injury to the epithelium and their elastases are potent mucin secretagogues that can facilitate plasma exudation.”
      “Finally, we observed somewhat greater c-peptide in patients receiving insulin secretagogues.”
secretions
  1. plural of secretion
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Finally, a variety of tiny worm-like invertebrates adhere to sand grains with viscous secretions that are likely to be gels rather than solid.”
      “Around puberty, our apocrine glands kick into action, releasing thick secretions into hair follicles.”
      “Also, sensors embedded in bathtub drains and kitchen sinks could check for patterns of secretions which indicate disease.”
secretists
  1. plural of secretist
secreters
secretors
  1. plural of secretor
  2. Examples:
    1. “In all blood groups the average number of cavities is lower for ABH secretors than for non-secretors.”
      “This property distinguishes secretors from non-secretors, a property that has forensic importance such as in cases of rape.”
      “The ABO blood group and Lewis phenotype in saliva were determined for persons found to be secretors as described.”
secrecies
secrets
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