secretory

3 definitions found

secretory - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Secretory \Se*cre"to*ry\, a. [Cf. F. s['e]cr['e]toire. See
     Secrete.] (Physiol.)
     Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office of
     secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n. A
     secretory vessel; a secernent.
     [1913 Webster]

secretory - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  secretory
      adj 1: of or relating to or producing a secretion; " a secretory
             cell"

secretory - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  25 Moby Thesaurus words for "secretory":
     egestive, eliminative, excretionary, excretive, excretory,
     exudative, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory, lactational,
     lacteal, lacteous, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous,
     secretional, secretive, seminal, serous, sialagogic, spermatic,
     transudative, watering, watery