excretion

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AIM: Increased urinary albumin-excretion is a cardiovascular risk-factor.

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  1. noun The act or process of discharging waste matter from the blood, tissues, or organs.
  2. noun The matter, such as urine or sweat, that is so excreted.

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  • Calcium excretion, apparent calcium absorption and calcium balance in young and elderly subjects: influence of protein intake. —  The World's Healthiest Foods
  • AIM: Increased urinary albumin-excretion is a cardiovascular risk-factor. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Cole researches the effects of diet and management on nutrient excretion, ammonia emissions and methane emissions of finishing beef cattle. —  High Plains Journal
  • He has shown this reporter the gadget he is utilising to facilitate his excretion which was fixed by doctors at the Royal Teaching hospital. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • And while most pharmaceutical waste is unmetabolized medicine that is flushed into sewers and waterways through human excretion, the AP examined institutional drug disposal and its dangers because unused drugs add another substantial dimension to the problem. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
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  1. = French excrétion = Spanish excrecion = Portuguese excreção = Italian escrezione, from Latin as if *excretio(n-), from excernere, past participle excretus, separate: see excern, excrete.
 

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