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EXCRETORY ORGAN

Pronunciation (US):

• EXCRETORY ORGAN (noun)
The noun EXCRETORY ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them

Familiarity information: EXCRETORY ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

• EXCRETORY ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

excretory organ; urinary organ

Hypernyms ("excretory organ" is a kind of...):

internal organ; viscus (a main organ that is situated inside the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excretory organ"):

flame cell (organ of excretion in flatworms)

kidney (either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine)

Holonyms ("excretory organ" is a part of...):

apparatus urogenitalis; genitourinary apparatus; genitourinary system; systema urogenitale; urinary apparatus; urinary system; urogenital apparatus; urogenital system (the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine)

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