excretion

See also: excrétion

English

Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.

excretion (countable and uncountable, plural excretions)

The process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.
- 1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science (page 32)
  […] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.

process of removing from the body

Afrikaans: uitskeiding
Bengali: রেচন (recônô)
Bulgarian: отделяне (bg) n (otdeljane)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 排泄 (paai⁴sit³)
Mandarin: 排泄 (zh) (páixiè)
Min Nan: 排泄 (pâi-siat)
Czech: vylučování n
Dutch: excretie (nl) f, uitscheiding (nl) f
Finnish: eritys (fi), erittäminen (fi)
French: excrétion (fr) f
Galician: excreción (gl) f
German: Ausscheidung (de) f, Exkretion f
Greek: απέκκριση (el) f (apékkrisi)
Indonesian: ekskresi (id)
Japanese: 排泄 (ja) (はいせつ, haisetsu)
Korean: 배설(排泄) (ko) (baeseol)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: deravêtin
Latin: excretio f
Malay: perkumuhan
Persian: دفع‎ (fa)
Polish: wydalanie (pl) n
Portuguese: excreção (pt) f
Russian: выделе́ние (ru) n (vydelénije), экскре́ция (ru) f (ekskrécija)
Spanish: excreción (es) f
Tagalog: paluwasan, ekskresyon
Tamil: கழிப்பு (ta) (kaḻippu)
Telugu: విసర్జన (visarjana)
Thai: การขับถ่าย (th)
Vietnamese: bài tiết (vi) (排泄)