excretory system

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1. The systems that excrete wastes from the body. For example, the system of organs that regulates the amount of water in the body and filters and eliminates from the blood the wastes produced by metabolism. The principal organs of the excretory system are the kidneys, ureters, urethra, and urinary bladder.

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Example Sentences

For example, nutrients pass from the digestive system into the blood, and the excretory system rids the blood of wastes.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

This section specifically describes how different hormones affect the excretory system, the reproductive system, metabolism, blood calcium concentrations, growth, and the stress response.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

It was like having a ticking time bomb lodged in your excretory system.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2013

They lack circulatory and respiratory systems, and have a rudimentary excretory system.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

At which time it brings forward all the solvent qualities and applies them with the assistance of the motor force to drive out through the bowels, lungs, porous and excretory system all irritable substances.

From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)