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Secretase
- noun - a set of enzymes believed to snip pieces off a longer protein producing fragments of amyloid protein that bunch up and create amyloid protein plaques in brain tissue (the pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's)
Secreters
- noun - any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream
Secreting
- verb - generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream"
- place out of sight; keep secret; "The money was secreted from his children"
- sweat, e.g.
Secretins
- noun - a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of water and bicarbonate from the pancreas and bile ducts whenever the stomach empties too much acid into the small intestine
Secretion
- noun - a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell
- the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance
Secretive
- adjective - inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information;
Secretors
- noun - any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream
Secretory
- adjective - of or relating to or producing a secretion; " a secretory cell"
Sectarian
- adjective - a member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect"
- belonging to or characteristic of a sect; "a sectarian mind"; "the negations of sectarian ideology"- Sidney Hook; "sectarian squabbles in psychology"
- of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects; "sectarian differences"