Erittämiä

Erittämiä is a Finnish grammatical form derived from the verb erittää, meaning to secrete or excrete. It functions as a past passive participle used adjectivally and is typically employed in plural partitive constructions to describe substances or materials that have been secreted by a cell, tissue, organ, or organism. In practice, erittämiä appears with a following noun in the partitive case, for example erittämiä aineita ("secreted substances") or erittämiä entsyymejä ("secreted enzymes").

Grammatically, erittämiä is the plural partitive form of the participle associated with erittää. Its role is to modify the noun it accompanies, agreeing in number and case. The form is common in scientific and medical contexts, including physiology, microbiology, botany, and pathology, where it describes secreted products, exudates, or secretions in a sample or specimen.

Related terms in Finnish include erittäminen (the act of secretion), erittää (to secrete), and eritteet (secretions or exudates) as broader concepts. The term erittämiä is primarily a descriptive modifier rather than a stand-alone noun, and its precise meaning depends on the noun it modifies.

See also: secretion, excretion, erittäminen, erittely.