Question

My sister is in the hospital. she has auto immune disease she has been in for over a week. she has fluid on lungs, doc said they need to drain the fluid. her white cells are up and he said that her secretion is up. I am wanting to know what that means "secretions are up"

Answer 1

1 the process of segregating, elaborating, and releasing some material either functionally specialized (such as saliva) or isolated for excretion (such as urine)

: a product of secretion formed by an animal or plant

especially : one performing a specific useful function in the organism

2 [ 2secrete ] : the act of hiding something