What's the difference between excretion and transpiration?

Excretion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of excreting.
  • (n.) That which is excreted; excrement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
  • (2) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
  • (3) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
  • (4) Irrespective of the type of arthropathy, synovial fluid dialysable hydroxyproline levels correlate with urinary hydroxyproline excretion.
  • (5) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
  • (6) Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive.
  • (7) Sodium intake affects K excretion, increases in intake resulting in a higher rate of K excretion.
  • (8) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
  • (9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (10) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
  • (11) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
  • (12) GFR, urinary pH and glucose excretion were not affected by R(-)-ibuprofen.
  • (13) Both SAA and non-SAA enhanced ammonium excretion but only non-SAA enhanced organic anion excretion, an indicator of incomplete oxidation of organic acids.
  • (14) Infusion of 1 unit of 25-HCC per hour for 6 hours induced an antiphosphaturia only when administered with 0.2 units of PTH per hour, while neither agent alone changed phosphate excretion.
  • (15) The second agent in contrast caused elevated cell and enzyme excretion, increasing throughout the period of administration.
  • (16) Additionally, cats excreted the taurine conjugate of hydratropic acid.
  • (17) A study was conducted to determine the usefulness of self-screening of blood pressure in families as part of a school health care programme, and to study the relationship between BP and sodium excretion in school children.
  • (18) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
  • (20) Diarrhea and excretion of vibrios lasted longer in animals consuming less protein.

Transpiration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration.
  • (n.) The evaporation of water, or exhalation of aqueous vapor, from cells and masses of tissue.
  • (n.) The passing of gases through fine tubes, porous substances, or the like; as, transpiration through membranes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It transpired that in 65% of the analysed advertisements explicit or implicit claims were made.
  • (2) 9.59am GMT Summary We’ll leave you with a summary of what transpired here throughout the day: • Julia Gillard announced a contest for her position as prime minister following calls by Simon Crean, a senior minister in her government, for her to be replaced by her predecessor, Kevin Rudd • Shortly before the ballot was to take place Kevin Rudd announced he would not stand for the Labor Party leadership , re-iterating his promise to the Australian people that he would not challenge Julia Gillard • When it came time for the ballot, Gillard was the only person who stood for the leadership and she and her deputy Wayne Swan were elected unopposed .
  • (3) The major change in attitude involved the realization that the density- and frequency-independent selection discussed by most population geneticists has little bearing on events transpiring within natural populations; instead, natural selection should be viewed primarily as a density- and frequency-dependent phenomenon.
  • (4) the weight difference between produced CO2 and consumed O2, water loss through the lungs and transpiration through the skin.
  • (5) However, it later transpired that she had done a reading for Dowling two years earlier.
  • (6) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
  • (7) "I and the [enquiry] panel were surprised that the level of preparation, for a weather event that was off the radar, was not much better than transpired," he said.
  • (8) Moreover pain transpire very quickly and does not always last very long.
  • (9) But now it transpires that getting bombed by fighter jets in your own home is not part of anybody’s culture.
  • (10) It would transpire that, by happy chance, the virus was maximally infective only when patients were at their most unwell and usually already in hospital.
  • (11) Since transpiration rate variations should theoretically affect only the rate and not the extent of leaf H2(18O) fractionation, the respective time courses for water-stressed and control leaf H2(18O) accumulations were compared.
  • (12) It transpired that 45% of the child population had encountered varicella at preschool age and another 45% during the attendance of school.
  • (13) It transpires that this bizarre and unnecessary connecting of the strike to terrorism (made within a week of the Paris attacks) was approved by Jeremy Hunt’s office.
  • (14) when it transpires that one of the channel's hot new stars will be Lebedev himself.
  • (15) It transpired that she had visited Butler 190 times, including during court proceedings.
  • (16) Miles Carroll, a virologist and head of research at Public Health England’s national infection service, who is conducting a separate study on survivors in Guinea, said it may yet transpire that samples with the higher levels of neutralising antibody were more effective.
  • (17) Sinopec has filed a motion to dismiss Sun’s claim, challenging the US as the appropriate jurisdiction for the suit – it suggests China is the appropriate place for the hearing – adding that even if actions had transpired as Sun claimed, it would not amount to what he suggested.
  • (18) Approved memories can be purchased in the gift shop.” But it transpires that the draconian rule, which was first introduced for the blockbusting David Bowie exhibition in 2013, has nothing to do with protecting intellectual property.
  • (19) But now it transpires that foreign nationals have heard about our generous system (which dates back to the Magna Carta in 1215 – or similar), and they want in.
  • (20) It later transpired – through documents that were apparently leaked to the press with Jobs's approval – that he had a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee.