Plant fluid (or substance therein) excreted by glands or glandular cells.
The process of elaborating a specific product as a result of the activity of a gland; this activity may range from separating a specific substance of the blood to the elaboration of a new chemical substance.
Any substance produced by secretion.
The process by which a substance is produced by a gland.
A substance produced by a gland.
Process by which substances (e.g., enzymes and hormones) are released from specific organs or the blood for a particular purpose.
The body’s release of chemical substances, such as estrogen or adrenaline, into the bloodstream.
The process by which a gland isolates constituents of the blood or tissue fluid and chemically alters them to produce a substance that it discharges for use by the body or excretes. The principal methods of secretion, apocrine, holocrine, and merocrine, are illustrated in the diagram.
Material formed by a gland as the result of its activity. For example, saliva is the secretion of the salivary glands; gastric juice that of the glands in the stomach wall; bile that of the liver. Some secretions consist apparently of waste material which is of no further use in the chemistry of the body. These secretions are often spoken of as excretions: for example, the urine and the sweat.
The making and release of substances by glands.
The production and discharge of substances, such as enzymes, essential for metabolic processes in various parts of the body, carried out by cells, glands, or organs.
A frequently employed expression for the activation of a portion of the Mental Health Act to involuntarily confine an individual with a mental illness.
The process of creating a substance through a gland, which is either expelled from the body as an excretion or transported by the bloodstream to perform a distinct function in another part of the body; this substance created through secretion.