Explore Secretion through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like humor or humour. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Secretion meaning
- Any substance that is secreted by an organism.
- The act of secreting a substance, especially from a gland.
Synonyms of Secretion
Using Secretion
- The main meaning on this page is: Any substance that is secreted by an organism. | The act of secreting a substance, especially from a gland.
- Useful related words include: secernment, organic process, biological process, liquid body substance.
- In the example corpus, secretion often appears in combinations such as: secretion of, the secretion, secretion and.
Context around Secretion
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Secretion
- In this selection, "secretion" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, acid, prolactin, induced, begins, due and system stand out and add context to how "secretion" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a dedicated secretion pathway with and a rare secretion from whales. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "secretion" sits close to words such as abnormally, acrobatic and adm, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with secretion
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Production and secretion are largely independent; prepared insulin is stored awaiting secretion. (12 words)
B. Breve helps in the breakdown of sugars and secretion of lactic acid. (13 words)
Calcium involves various bodily functions, including blood clotting, enzyme activity, and hormone secretion. (13 words)
Women might also have more eyelash mites than men because of hormonal reasons, and older people will often have more eyelash mites than younger ones (your sebum secretion increases as you age, says Krauss). (34 words)
These shared genes play a role in insulin secretion or inflammation in the brain, pancreas or fat tissue, with changes in these biological processes potentially explaining how depression increases type 2, they suggested. (33 words)
It’s caused when bile acids produced by the liver are not processed properly, so excess bile passes into the colon, stimulating salts and water secretion, and leading to watery diarrhoea. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Circadian prolactin secretion begins in the late afternoon, especially in women, and is subsequently augmented by sleep-induced secretion, to peak in the middle of the night.
Production and secretion are largely independent; prepared insulin is stored awaiting secretion.
B. Breve helps in the breakdown of sugars and secretion of lactic acid.
Calcium involves various bodily functions, including blood clotting, enzyme activity, and hormone secretion.
Do not pop drugs like Pantocid, which are proton pump inhibitors and stop acid secretion in the stomach.
The drug binds to and activates the GLP-1 receptor, stimulating secretion of the blood sugar-regulating hormone, insulin.
These shared genes play a role in insulin secretion or inflammation in the brain, pancreas or fat tissue, with changes in these biological processes potentially explaining how depression increases type 2, they suggested.
It’s caused when bile acids produced by the liver are not processed properly, so excess bile passes into the colon, stimulating salts and water secretion, and leading to watery diarrhoea.
Postmortem results showed that death was due to aspiration of secretion due to low oxygen supply as a result of head injuries.
The carboxylic acids were the result of the secretion of sebum, an oily substance that protects the skin.
The large ‘rocks’ appeared to resemble highly prized ambergris, a rare secretion from whales.
They especially analyzed the honeydew, the sugar-containing secretion of many sap-sucking insects, by means of chemical analyses and isotope labeling of individual chemical compounds.
Naturopathic physician Jonathan E. Prousky provides convincing evidence that the lack of vitamin B3 (niacin) is another major cause of poor stomach acid secretion.
Sometimes in that secretion, the female mosquito leaves behind a dangerous pathogen, which is how dangerous diseases are transmitted.
Temporal gland secretion is visible as a dark stain behind and slightly above the eye.
The researchers worked with a very similar bacterium, M. smegmatis, which is used in research as a model to study M. tuberculosis and that shares the same secretion system with it.
Adhesin uses a dedicated secretion pathway, with several steps occurring in the cytosol before its translocation across the membrane.
Aged garlic extract modified the secretion of inflammatory proteins from immune cells, Percival said.
But he must also remain calm and rested to sure that there is no relapse into excessive secretion of acids in the body.
Women might also have more eyelash mites than men because of hormonal reasons, and older people will often have more eyelash mites than younger ones (your sebum secretion increases as you age, says Krauss).
Common combinations with secretion
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- secretion of 28×
- the secretion 16×
- secretion and 8×
- insulin secretion 7×
- secretion is 7×
- hormone secretion 5×
- acid secretion 5×
- secretion by 4×
- and secretion 4×
- secretion from 3×