To catch the disease from a chicken or duck, moreover, a human being must come into contact with the excretions or secretions of an infected bird.
The male and female genital fluids are generally regarded with disgust they are not only excretions but sexual excretions.
In this work, Liebig employed analyses and highly speculative equations in an attempt to unravel the metabolic routes by which foodstuffs were transformed into flesh and blood and whereby tissues were degraded into animal heat, muscular work, and secretions and excretions.
In reptiles and birds it expands greatly between two other membranes, the amnion and chorion, to serve as a temporary respiratory organ while its cavity stores fetal excretions.
The list of polluting organic processes and things includes menstruation, sexual intercourse, birth, illness, death, and all bodily excretions and exuviae (urine, feces, saliva, sweat, vomit, blood, menstrual blood, semen, nasal and oral mucous, and hair and nail cuttings).
They include various drugs, excretions from certain plants, metals such as chromium, nickel, and mercury, and industrial products such as hair dyes, varnish, cosmetics, and resins.
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).
