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Definition: EXCITO-SECRETORY

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb excito-secretorily.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(excito-secretorily)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective excito-secretory.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Excito-secretory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: EXCITO-SECRETORY

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb excito-secretorily.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(excito-secretorily)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective excito-secretory.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "EXCITO-SECRETORY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)