excreted

Pushed waste out

Excreted is the past tense of excrete, meaning to discharge waste matter from the body or cells.

Kidneys excrete urine, sweat glands excrete perspiration, and cells excrete metabolic byproducts.

The term applies to biological processes rather than voluntary elimination: The drug is excreted primarily through the liver.

substances

feces

Solid digestive waste

  • urineRenal excretion fluid
  • sweatMoisture from skin pores
  • mucusProtective bodily secretion

bile · saliva · tears · sebum · earwax · phlegm · sputum · pus · lactate · cerumen

release

discharged

Officially let go

passed · emitted · exuded · evacuated · ejected · shed · oozed · released

waste

sewage

Liquid refuse in drains

guano · dung · ordure · nightsoil · effluent · muck · sludge · frass · castings · spoor

organs

kidneys

Blood-filtering organ pair

  • liverAbdominal detoxifying organ
  • bladderOrgan holding urine
  • colonLarge intestine section

rectum · skin · sweat glands · intestines · urethra · anus · nephron · cloaca · protonephridia

processes

urination

Releasing fluid waste

micturition · evacuation · elimination · sweating · peristalsis · filtration · reabsorption · osmoregulation · diuresis

Opposites
bodily substance movement

excretedabsorbed

Took in fully

ingested · consumed · inhaled · taken in · swallowed

metabolic fate

excretedabsorbed

Took in fully

retained · assimilated · stored · metabolized · incorporated

Phrases
Family

excrete, excretion, excretory, excreta, excretes, excreting, excretions

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