Apocrine

/ˈæpəˌkɹɪn/

Synonyms for "apocrine" (3 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (1)

Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (1)

Adjective(1 words)

Related words (1)

Adjective(1 words)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

4 entries
exocrine glandglandglandular secretionsecretory mechanism

More specific

4 entries
apocrine glandapocrine secretionapocrine sweat glandmammary gland

Collocations

6 entries
apocrine cellsapocrine differentiationapocrine glandapocrine metaplasiaapocrine secretionapocrine sweat gland

Inflections

2 entries
more apocrinemost apocrine

Derivations

3 entries
apocrine glandapocrine secretionapocrinous

Antonyms

1 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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."

Source: wiktionary

Lobular cysts as well as micro- and macrocysts are very often lined to a variable extent by apocrine epithelium. Pathologists call this condition apocrine metaplasia, meaning a transformation of the normal epithelial cells into sweat-gland-like cells similar to those found in the apocrine glands of the vulva, eyelid, and external auditory canal.

Source: wiktionary

Apocrine glands are distributed throughout the body but are present in greatest abundance in the axilla, followed by the anogenital region.

Source: wiktionary

Two appreciate what happened, note that sweat glands come in two varieties, apocrine and eccrine.

Source: wiktionary

More for "apocrine"