5. (Physiol.)
Defn: To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
ELIMINATION
E*lim`i*na"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. élimination.]
1. The act of expelling or throwing off; (Physiol.)
Defn: the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
2. (Alg.)
Defn: Act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
3. The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [See Eliminate,
4.]
ELIMINATIVE
E*lim"i*na*tive, a. (Physiol.)