Secrete
verb
To produce and release a liquid, like sweat or a hormone, from a cell or gland within your body.
The glands in your skin secrete sweat to cool your body down.
verb
To hide something carefully in a certain place.
He secreted the stolen gem in a small hole behind the painting.
verb
To produce and release a liquid, like sweat or a hormone, from a cell or gland within your body.
The glands in your skin secrete sweat to cool your body down.
verb
To hide something carefully in a certain place.
He secreted the stolen gem in a small hole behind the painting.
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Biological context
Often used in scientific or medical discussions related to the body's functions.
Enzymes are secreted by the pancreas to aid digestion.
Pro Tip 2/3Automatic process
The action of secreting a substance is not under voluntary control.
You cannot stop your stomach lining from secreting acids.
Pro Tip 3/3Not always visible
The secretion process may be invisible without medical equipment.
The hormone is secreted directly into the bloodstream.
Pro Tip 1/3Biological context
Often used in scientific or medical discussions related to the body's functions.
Enzymes are secreted by the pancreas to aid digestion.
Pro Tip 2/3Automatic process
The action of secreting a substance is not under voluntary control.
You cannot stop your stomach lining from secreting acids.
Pro Tip 3/3Not always visible
The secretion process may be invisible without medical equipment.
The hormone is secreted directly into the bloodstream.
Pro Tip 1/3Biological context
Often used in scientific or medical discussions related to the body's functions.
Enzymes are secreted by the pancreas to aid digestion.
Pro Tip 2/3Automatic process
The action of secreting a substance is not under voluntary control.
You cannot stop your stomach lining from secreting acids.
Pro Tip 3/3Not always visible
The secretion process may be invisible without medical equipment.
The hormone is secreted directly into the bloodstream.
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Quorum sensing: Bacteria...
what's important for today's talk is that we know that there are hundreds of behaviors that bacteria carry out in these collective fashions but the one that's probably the most important to you is virulence so it's not like a couple bacteria to get in you and then they start secreting some toxins you're
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How do carbohydrates...
When you eat and your blood sugar rises, insulin is secreted into the blood. It prompts your muscle and fat cells to let glucose in and jump starts the conversion of sugar to energy. The degree to which a unit of insulin lowers the blood sugar helps us understand something called insulin sensitivity.
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The science of milk -...
and are then expelled and stored in spaces between cells. Mammary glands eventually secrete the milk through the breasts, udders, or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen. Although this process is typically reserved for females, in some species, like dayak fruit bats, goats,
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The radical possibilities...
when they find them secrete a toxic protein that kills them could create pect area that eat different kinds of oil maybe to clean up an oil spill these are just a couple of the types of stories that we're gonna see if life with an expanded vocabulary can tell so sounds great right injecting
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The evolution of the...
a tough white outer layer, known as the sclera, to maintain its structure, and tear glands that secrete a protective film. But equally important was the accompanying evolution of the brain, with its expansion of the visual cortex
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The surprising reason...
it secretes more cytokines, which trigger two responses. First, the vagus nerve, which runs through the body into the brain, quickly transmits the information to the brain stem, passing near an important area of pain processing.
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How in vitro fertilizatio...
Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum,
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How do your kidneys...
These organs have the power to activate vitamin D to secrete a hormone called renin that raises blood pressure, and another hormone called erythropoietin, which increases red blood cell production.
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Coral Reefs 101 PIPE...
Each polyp consists of a soft, saclike body topped by a mouth covered in stinging tentacles. To protect their soft bodies and add support, the polyps secrete limestone skeletons, or calicles.
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Hippo vs Lion Clan PIPE...
the heat is overwhelming hippos can't sweat but they do secrete a thick oily reddish fluid this acts as a sunscreen and helps
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Quorum sensing: Bacteria...
what's important for today's talk is that we know that there are hundreds of behaviors that bacteria carry out in these collective fashions but the one that's probably the most important to you is virulence so it's not like a couple bacteria to get in you and then they start secreting some toxins you're
Video examples
How do carbohydrates...
When you eat and your blood sugar rises, insulin is secreted into the blood. It prompts your muscle and fat cells to let glucose in and jump starts the conversion of sugar to energy. The degree to which a unit of insulin lowers the blood sugar helps us understand something called insulin sensitivity.
Video examples
The science of milk -...
and are then expelled and stored in spaces between cells. Mammary glands eventually secrete the milk through the breasts, udders, or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen. Although this process is typically reserved for females, in some species, like dayak fruit bats, goats,
Video examples
The radical possibilities...
when they find them secrete a toxic protein that kills them could create pect area that eat different kinds of oil maybe to clean up an oil spill these are just a couple of the types of stories that we're gonna see if life with an expanded vocabulary can tell so sounds great right injecting
Video examples
The evolution of the...
a tough white outer layer, known as the sclera, to maintain its structure, and tear glands that secrete a protective film. But equally important was the accompanying evolution of the brain, with its expansion of the visual cortex
Video examples
The surprising reason...
it secretes more cytokines, which trigger two responses. First, the vagus nerve, which runs through the body into the brain, quickly transmits the information to the brain stem, passing near an important area of pain processing.
Video examples
How in vitro fertilizatio...
Once implanted, the cells that are to become the placenta secrete a hormone that signals to the ovulated follicle that there is a pregnancy in the uterus. This helps rescue that follicle, now called the corpus luteum,
Video examples
How do your kidneys...
These organs have the power to activate vitamin D to secrete a hormone called renin that raises blood pressure, and another hormone called erythropoietin, which increases red blood cell production.
Video examples
Coral Reefs 101 PIPE...
Each polyp consists of a soft, saclike body topped by a mouth covered in stinging tentacles. To protect their soft bodies and add support, the polyps secrete limestone skeletons, or calicles.
Video examples
Hippo vs Lion Clan PIPE...
the heat is overwhelming hippos can't sweat but they do secrete a thick oily reddish fluid this acts as a sunscreen and helps
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Edwin M. Stanton
American Lawyer
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
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Robert Sapolsky
American Scientist
The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.
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Jean Chatzky
American Journalist
Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.
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Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.
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Bernard Meltzer
American Entertainer
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
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Robin Morgan
American Activist
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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Prashant Bhushan
Indian Lawyer
The secreting of wealth in tax havens is often justified as 'legitimate tax planning.
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Marshall Brickman
American Writer
I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
British Writer
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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Edwin M. Stanton
American Lawyer
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death.
Quote examples
Robert Sapolsky
American Scientist
The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.
Quote examples
Jean Chatzky
American Journalist
Women take fewer financial risks than men do, but not because we're wusses. Both sexes secrete the hormone oxytocin in stressful situations, but women secrete more of it, which helps us stay calmer.
Quote examples
Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.
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Bernard Meltzer
American Entertainer
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
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Robin Morgan
American Activist
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
Quote examples
Virginia Woolf
British Author
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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Prashant Bhushan
Indian Lawyer
The secreting of wealth in tax havens is often justified as 'legitimate tax planning.
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Marshall Brickman
American Writer
I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
British Writer
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
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