| excommunicable | Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper. "Persons excommunicable ." "What offenses are excommunicable ?" (Kenle) See: Excommunicate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| exconjugant | A member of a conjugating pair of protozoan ciliates after separation and prior to the subsequent mitotic division of each of the exconjugant's. See: conjugant, conjugation. Origin: ex-+ L. Conjugo, to join (05 Mar 2000) |
| excoriable | Capable of being excoriated. " The scaly covering of fishes, . . . Even in such as are excoriatable,/qex>. (Sir T. Browne) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| excoriate | To scratch or otherwise denude the skin by physical means. (05 Mar 2000) |
| excoriation | 1. The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion. 2. Stripping of possession; spoliation. "A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort." (Howell) Origin: Cf. F. Excoriation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| excorticate | To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate. "Excorticate the tree." Origin: L. Ex out, from + cortex, corticis, bark. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| excrement | Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure. Origin: L. Excrementum, fr. Excernere, excretum, to skin out, discharge: cf. F. Excrement. See Excrete. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| excrementitious | <physiology> Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| excrescence | A normal outgrowth, a disfiguring addition. (09 Oct 1997) |
| excreta | Synonym: excretion. Origin: L. Neut. Pl. Of excretus, pp. Of ex-cerno, to separate (05 Mar 2000) |
| excrete | To separate from the blood and cast out; to perform excretion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| excretin | <physiology> A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human faeces. Origin: From Excrete. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| excretion | <nephrology> The act, process or function of excreting. Origin: L. Excretio (18 Nov 1997) |
| excretory | Relating to excretion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| excretory duct | A duct carrying the secretion from a gland or a fluid from any reservoir. Synonym: ductus excretorius. (05 Mar 2000) |