excretion

process of elimination by an organism of the waste products that arise as a result of metabolic activities
Intangible biological_process Q185557
excretion
Jakob Sigurðsson[2] · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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excretion

Summary

excretion is a biological process[1]. excretion draws 293 Wikipedia views per month (biological_process category, ranking #82 of 442).[2]

Key Facts

  • excretion's image is recorded as SÁM 66, 76r, Mead of Poetry.jpg[3].
  • excretion's instance of is recorded as biological process[4].
  • excretion's GND ID is recorded as 4135887-9[5].
  • excretion's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85046259[6].
  • excretion's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11978224s[7].
  • excretion's subclass of is recorded as system process[8].
  • excretion's subclass of is recorded as expulsion[9].
  • excretion's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00562817[10].
  • excretion's Commons category is recorded as Excretion[11].
  • excretion's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q9610 (ben)-Tahmid-রেচন.wav[12].
  • excretion's opposite of is recorded as eating[13].
  • excretion's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 42023[14].
  • excretion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01lvt1[15].
  • excretion's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0007588[16].
  • excretion's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph273313[17].
  • excretion's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Excretion[18].
  • excretion's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX543285[19].
  • excretion's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 573.49[20].
  • excretion's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 612.46[21].
  • excretion's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 575.79[22].
  • excretion's product or material produced is recorded as external secretion[23].
  • excretion's product or material produced is recorded as excrement[24].
  • excretion's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • excretion's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[26].
  • excretion's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[27].

Why It Matters

excretion draws 293 Wikipedia views per month (biological_process category, ranking #82 of 442).[2] excretion has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] excretion is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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