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The pituitary, in turn, tells the fetal adrenal gland to secrete more cortisol.
The adrenals, located atop the kidneys, secrete cortisol, a hormone that protects the body in stressful situations.
Figs are members of the rubber tree family and secrete white, sticky latex that can irritate the skin.
The lobes are made up of milk-producing glands, called lobules, which secrete milk into a system of ducts.
The adrenal glands are located on top of the kidneys and secrete hormones that regulate metabolism, salt and water balance, and stress responses.
Secretory diarrhea occurs when the large bowel secrete fluid and electrolytes into the lumen.
The glands secrete parathyroid hormone, which is the primary regulator of calcium homeostasis.
Human sebaceous glands secrete a lipid mixture of mainly triglycerides, wax esters, free fatty acids, and squalene.
Ventral epidermal cells secrete a segmentally repeating pattern of small hooks, called denticles, separated by expanses of naked cuticle.
The skins of some species of frogs and toads secrete an extraordinary array of defensive chemicals when the animals are seized by predators.
So Iran had to undertake a secrete program to acquire the advanced hardware and technical knowledge.
However, tests reveal that spuds release sugar quickly into the system, which stimulates the body to secrete a hormone called insulin.
They are as pugnacious as stinkpot turtles and when threatened they quickly secrete a foul smelling liquid.
Brachycephalus ephippium is bright orange, and some of its skin glands secrete tetrodotoxin.
Follicle cells also secrete the materials of the vitelline envelope and eggshell that surround the mature egg.
The matchstick-like cells secrete a liquid which protects the brain and spinal cord from impacts.
Macrophage cells secrete chemicals that can dissolve bone under an implant.
Certain bacteria in contaminated food or water can release a toxin that causes your intestinal cells to secrete salt and water.
A meibomian cyst is an enlargement of the glands that lie within the eyelid and which secrete lipids.
Acne is a skin condition caused by overactivity of the glands that secrete oily substances on to the skin.
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Examples from Classical Literature
You can hardly find them by day, for they are cunning and secrete themselves.
During that time we shall be able to seek Lygia unhindered and secrete her in safety.
Some marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime not only encrust rocks but give rise to sheets of submarine limestone.
If the gland is inactive and does not secrete enough of the hormone, there is a reduction in the metabolism.
Should he return for help, or should he secrete himself somewhere and watch?
Why should she secrete it with such care unless it conveyed a lover's assurance?
It is now well proven that the injury is done, not by the bacilli themselves but by the toxines which they secrete or excrete.
The wood rat and magpie will steal every imaginable article about a house, carry it away and secrete it.
The formic acid that the ants secrete had partly paralyzed it and made defence impossible.
In conjugation, two cells open and secrete a gelatinous mass from which an auxospore is formed.
The glands of bartholin also begin to secrete in sexually immature girls, and even in children.
Because they secrete a carbonaceous matter, named chlorophyll, from which they derive their green colour.
It is lined by skin in its whole length, the sweat glands of which are modified to secrete the wax or cerumen.
His men were continually stealing away thither, with whatever beaver skins they could secrete or lay their hands on.
It will be easy after that to secrete both the horse and his trappings.
It not uncommonly ceases to secrete after the ethmoid has been cleared.
Glands around the octopus' mouth secrete mucus, which might snag bedazzled copepods for dinner.
I design to secrete it in the wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously made a place of concealment for it.
Ticket-collecting is a slow business in the East, where people secrete their tickets in all sorts of curious places.
I think I will manage to secrete myself in that hangar to-morrow morning.
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