hyperexcrete

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verb

To excrete excessively.

Scrabble 29

Meanings

verbhyperexcrete (third-person singular simple present hyperexcretes, present participle hyperexcreting, simple past and past participle hyperexcreted)

present singular third person hyperexcretes · participle present hyperexcreting · participle past hyperexcreted · past hyperexcreted

  1. To excrete excessively.

    However, because not all combinations of these amino acids have been carefully tested in kinetic studies, some of the amino acids may be hyperexcreted because their (intact) absorption system is inhibited by other amino acids whose transport system is defective.

    2012, R. Greger, Renal Transport of Organic Substances, page 107
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    Double heterozygous mice, which showed calculi formation in 4% of the cases, show slight differences in dibasic amino acids urine excretion compared with singles heterozygotes animals (Fig 3A, 3B and 3C ) and hyperexcrete 5- and 2-fold cystine in urine compared with single heterozygous mice (Fig 3D ).

    2015 September 12, “Digenic Inheritance in Cystinuria Mouse Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

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