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Webster 1913 Edition

Secretory

Se-cre′to-ry

,

Adj.

[Cf. F.

sécrétoire

. See

.]

(Physiol.)

Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office of secretion; secernent;

as,

secretory

vessels, nerves

.

–

Noun.

A secretory vessel; a secernent.