excretin

English

Etymology

excrete +‎ -in

Noun

excretin (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry, dated) A non-nitrogenous crystalline body present in small quantities in human feces.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “excretin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Verb

excretin

1. inflection of excretar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative