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secretion
n. discharge, excretion; act of discharging or excreting; act of hiding, concealment


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Secretion
Secretion is the process of segregating, elaborating, and releasing chemicals from a cell, or a secreted chemical substance or amount of substance.Eukaryotic cells have a highly evolved process of secretion. Proteins targeted for the outside are synthesized by ribosomes docked to the rough endoplasmic reticulum. As they are synthesized, these proteins translocate into the ER lumen, where they are glycosylated and where molecular chaperones aid protein folding. Misfolded proteins are usually identified here and retrotranslocated by ER-associated degradation to the cytosol, where they are degraded by a proteasome. The vesicles containing the properly-folded proteins then enter the Golgi apparatus.
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secretion
Noun
1. the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance
(synonym) secernment
(hypernym) organic process, biological process
(hyponym) galactosis
(derivation) secrete, release
2. a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell
(hypernym) liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
(hyponym) ganoin, ganoine


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sécrétion (f)
n. secretion, discharge

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Secretion
(n.)
The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
  
 
(n.)
The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
  
 
(n.)
Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
  

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