secretor

English

Alternative forms

• secreter

Etymology

From secrete +‎ -or.

Noun

secretor (plural secretors)

1. A person who or animal that secretes (emits a bodily fluid).
2. A person who secretes comparatively large quantities of blood-group antigens in their bodily fluids.
3. (physiology) A cell, tissue, or organ (such as a gland) that produces a bodily secretion.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “person who secretes blood-group antigens in their bodily fluids”): nonsecretor

Anagrams

• Rocester, Terceros, erectors

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sekɾɛˈtoɾ/ [s̺e.kɾɛˈt̪oɾ]
• IPA^(key): /sekɾeˈtoɾ/ [s̺e.kɾeˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Hyphenation: se‧cre‧tor

Adjective

secretor (feminine secretora, masculine plural secretores, feminine plural secretoras)

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Further reading

• “secretor”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Romanian

Alternative forms

• секретор (secretor) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French sécréteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.kreˈtor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: se‧cre‧tor

Adjective

secretor m or n (feminine singular secretoare, masculine plural secretori, feminine and neuter plural secretoare)

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Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	secretor		secretoare		secretori	secretoare
	definite	secretorul		secretoarea		secretorii	secretoarele
genitive- dative	indefinite	secretor		secretoare		secretori	secretoare
	definite	secretorului		secretoarei		secretorilor	secretoarelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sekɾeˈtoɾ/ [se.kɾeˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: se‧cre‧tor

Adjective

secretor (feminine secretora, masculine plural secretores, feminine plural secretoras)

1. secreting

Noun

secretor m (plural secretores)

1. secretor

Further reading

• “secretor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28