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Merocrine

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to certain exocrine glands that secrete without major damage to the secretory cells. not-comparable

    "Merocrine cells have several full secretion cycles — the merocrine secretion cell does not die when it secretes into the lumen of the gland."

Etymology

From mero- (“partial”) + Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate”).

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