1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. xi. 233 What medical physiologists affirm of certain secretions, applies equally to our thoughts; they too must be taken up again into the circulation, and be again and again re-secreted in order to ensure a healthful vigor, both to the mind and to its intellectual offspring.

1876 Trans. Clin. Soc. 9 3 A linear incision in the iris, which when the aqueous humour was resecreted, gaped sufficiently to form the required pupil.

1936 Science 1 May 415/1 Because the exoskeleton is completely resecreted after each ecdysis evolutionary changes in skeletal areas occur in bewildering variety.

1976 Current Probl. in Surg. 13 38 (caption) Bile salts are then returned by the portal vein to the liver, and resecreted in bile together with newly synthesized bile salts.

2004 E. Naumann et al. in R. R. Watson & V. R. Preedy Nutrition & Heart Dis. 283 The liver..can store the cholesterol as cholesterol esters through the action of ACAT or resecrete it along with endogenously synthesized cholesterol, into the circulation in very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) particles.

1830 W. Mackenzie Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye x. 329 Leaving the conjunctiva in a more or less altered state, and with a greater or less disposition to the re-secretion of pus.

1900 J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. 11 215 The wound had simply healed and re-secretion had taken place.

1999 Proc. National Acad. Soc. U.S.A. 96 10950/2 Several years ago, Schmitz et al...described a pathway of HDL uptake and resecretion.

1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 131 Which store [of gold] is always quietly re-secreted under the ground of the tent or elsewhere.

1996 M. Redfield Phantom Formations iv. 111 The secret that the jeweler resecretes in the casket is perhaps best left undisturbed for this reason.