excretion

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe process of removing or ejecting material that has no further utility, especially from the body; the act of excreting.
2. countableuncountableSomething excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.

   […] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.

   1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32

   Synonyms: excrement, excretum

In a sentence

[…] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.

1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32

Where it comes from

1. Latinexcerno
2. Late Latinexcretio, excretionis
3. Middle Frenchexcrétion
4. Englishexcretion

Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.