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Apocrine

//ˈæpəˌkɹɪn// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells. not-comparable

    "They observed that apocrine metaplasia often was present in breasts with other "noncancerous proliferative lesions," but they found no significant difference in the frequency of apocrine metaplasia between "cancerous and noncancerous breasts.""

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion wordnet

Etymology

From apo- (“away from”) + Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate”).

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