Meaning of organ of elimination | Babel Free

Definitions

Any bodily organ that produces or excretes waste products.

Examples

“The delicate surface of the lungs, and, indeed, of the whole air passages, is […] also a great organ of elimination. Camphor, phosphorus, ether, diluted alcohol, gases, and various odorous substances, when introduced into the system, escape in a great measure by the lungs: whence they are perceived in the breath[…]”

“Thus in my opinion the question is decided ; the kidney is but an organ of elimination; its office in diabetes is to eliminate the sugar from the blood, as it is in health to eliminate the urea.”

“[…]that most important organ of elimination the skin, in the glow of which, and in its cleansed pores, and promoted transpiration, an increased exhalation and excretion are obtained, through which in the course of weeks any degree of purification of the blood that may be supposed necessary, may be arrived at.”

“For man and animals the liver receives the food for the body: the liver is the principal organ of elimination; the liver appears to play the role of cytoplasm; it appears to be the negative pole of the organism, playing always with the positive pole—the brain.”

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