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AccretionAccretion Ac*cre"tion, n. [L. accretio, fr. accrescere to
increase. Cf. Crescent, Increase, Accrue.]
1. The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase
of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts;
organic growth. --Arbuthnot.
2. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an
accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as,
an accretion of earth.
A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by
accretion. --Owen.
To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a
later accretion. --Sir G. C.
Lewis.
3. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the
accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
4. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the
fingers toes. --Dana.
5. (Law)
(a) The adhering of property to something else, by which
the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to
another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of
sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual
recession of the water from the usual watermark.
(b) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the
same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to
take his share. --Wharton. Kent. Concretion
Concretion Con*cre"tion, n. [L. concretio.]
1. The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of
becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass;
solidification.
Concretional
Concretional Con*cre"tion*al, a.
Concretionary.
Concretionary
Concretionary Con*cre"tion*a*ry, a.
Pertaining to, or formed by, concretion or aggregation;
producing or containing concretions.
DecretionDecretion De*cre"tion, n. [From L. decrescere, decretum. See
Decrease.]
A decrease. [Obs.] --Pearson. foot secretionSclerobase Scler"o*base (? or ?), n. [Gr. sklhro`s hard +
ba`sis base.] (Zo["o]l.)
The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or
axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot
secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and
C[oe]nenchyma. -- Scler`o*ba"sic, a. Gouty concretionsGouty Gout"y, a.
1. Diseased with, or subject to, the gout; as, a gouty
person; a gouty joint.
2. Pertaining to the gout. ``Gouty matter.' --Blackmore.
3. Swollen, as if from gout. --Derham.
4. Boggy; as, gouty land. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Gouty bronchitis, bronchitis arising as a secondary disease
during the progress of gout.
Gouty concretions, calculi (urate of sodium) formed in the
joints, kidneys, etc., of sufferers from gout.
Gouty kidney, an affection occurring during the progress of
gout, the kidney shriveling and containing concretions of
urate of sodium. Hypersecretion
Hypersecretion Hy`per*se*cre"tion, n. (Med.)
Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.
Paralytic secretionParalytic Par`a*lyt"ic, a. [L. paralyticus, Gr. ?: cf. F.
paralytique.]
1. Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.
2. Affected with paralysis, or palsy.
The cold, shaking, paralytic hand. --Prior.
3. Inclined or tending to paralysis.
Paralytic secretion (Physiol.), the fluid, generally thin
and watery, secreted from a gland after section or
paralysis of its nerves, as the pralytic saliva.
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