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Word Meanings - HYPERSECRETION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.

Related words: (words related to HYPERSECRETION)

  • MORBIDEZZA
    Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
  • CATARRHOUS
    Catarrhal.
  • CATARRH
    An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder. Note: In America, the term catarrh
  • CATARRHINE
    One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.
  • MORBID
    1. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne. 2. Of or pertaining to disease
  • EXCESSIVE
    Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
  • CATARRHAL
    Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.
  • MORBIDLY
    In a morbid manner.
  • MORBIDITY
    1. The quality or state of being morbid. 2. Morbid quality; disease; sickness. C. Kingsley. 3. Amount of disease; sick rate.
  • MORBIDNESS
    The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.
  • SECRETION
    The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and
  • HYPERSECRETION
    Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.
  • ANTICATARRHAL
    Efficacious against catarrh. -- n.

 

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