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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 se·cre·tion /sɪˈkriʃən/
 分泌,分泌物,分泌液

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 se·cre·tion /sɪˈkrɪʃən/ 名詞
 分泌(作用),分泌物,任何分泌物

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Se·cre·tion n.
 1. The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.
 2. Physiol. 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 other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.
 3. Physiol. Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 secretion
      n 1: the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some
           substance [syn: secernment]
      2: a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is
         not a waste) released from a gland or cell