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Apocrine

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Adjective

1. apocrine

(of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion

Example Sentences:
'mother's milk is one apocrine secretion'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Apocrine

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adjective
denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glands
Compare merocrine, holocrine

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Apocrine

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adjective
designating a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is thrown off along with the secretion, as a type of sweat with a strong odor from large, deep glands in the armpit and anal areas
see also eccrine

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Apocrine

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adj.
Relating to a type of glandular secretion in which the apical portion of the secreting cell is released along with the secretory products.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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