hypersecretory

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adjective

Involving excessive secretion

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Meanings

adjectivehypersecretory (comparative more hypersecretory, superlative most hypersecretory)

comparative more hypersecretory · superlative most hypersecretory

  1. Involving excessive secretion

    Mucins are produced in low levels in health but they are over produced in a number of hypersecretory disorders in which they can directly contribute to the pathogenesis and prognosis of disease.

    2015 September 29, “Excess Secretion of Gel-Forming Mucins and Associated Innate Defense Proteins with Defective Mucin Un-Packaging Underpin Gallbladder Mucocele Formation in Dogs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From hyper- + secretory.

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