'excretion' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the elimination of bodily waste matter, such as urine, sweat or feces. For example, "The human body eliminates waste through the excretion of urine and feces."
But the excretion rate equals total quantity excreted per millilitre of filtrate per minute, and this value is directly proportional to its plasma concentration.
British English encourages lively scatological synonyms: foreigners told that someone is "taking a slash" or "on the bog" may be mystified.Sex outstrips even excretion as a source of euphemism.
One of his engravings shows a crowd looking at the prints in the window of Mrs Humphreys's shop, with the much-lampooned Prince of Wales as a customer inside.A few decades on, though, the Victorians could no longer cope with his frequent depictions of copulation, excretion and other bodily functions.
The byproducts of digestion are so hard to mention adolescent jokes aside that symptoms of bowel cancer are often ignored until it is too late.But as Rose George explains in this fascinating and eloquent book, there is a great deal that needs to be said about excretion that is not remotely funny.
A critical part of analysing leads is finding out how a drug will act in the body, by performing a so-called ADMET study (for absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity).
Excess aldosterone promotes potassium excretion.
See excretion; reproduction.
Conjugation with glutathione also enhances excretion.
The excretion of wastes and the control of the chemical composition of the internal environment are largely effected by kidneys, although other parts of the body, including the gills, may play an important role.
Most affected individuals experience cystathioninuria as a mild disorder, evincing only the abnormal urinary excretion of cystathionine; sometimes, however, the disorder is associated with intellectual disability.
In addition, the frequency and severity of recurrent attacks may be reduced by supplementation with vitamin C, which increases excretion of uric acid by the kidneys, thereby decreasing the amount of uric acid circulating in the body.
