secretor
English
noun
Definitions
- A person who or animal that secretes (emits a bodily fluid).
- A person who secretes comparatively large quantities of blood blood-group antigens in their bodily fluids.
- (physiology) A cell, tissue or organ (such as a gland) that produces a bodily secretion.
Etymology
Affix from English secrete.
Origin
English
secrete
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hypersecrete English
- hypersecretor English
- neurosecrete English
- nonsecretor English
- oversecrete English
- resecrete English
- rhizosecrete English
- secretability English
- secretable English
- secretagogue English
- secretase English
- secrete English
- secretest English
- secreteth English
- secretin English
- secretolysis English
- secretome English
- secretomotor English
- secretosome English
- sēcrētus Latin