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apocrine

/ˈæpəˌkɹɪn/

apocrine adjective: of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.

apocrine: of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of...
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Adjective

apocrine (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.
    • 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."2001, Paul Peter Rosen, Rosen's Breast Pathology, page 97
    • 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...2003, Marton Lanyi, Mammography: Diagnosis and Morphological Analysis, page 64

apocrine meaning in Tamil

apocrine in Tamil

புறச்சுரப்பிகள், வறுவியர்ப்பு

Examples of apocrine in a sentence

  • Lobular cysts as well as micro- and macrocysts are very often lined to a variable extent by apocrine epithelium.2003, Marton Lanyi, Mammography: Diagnosis and Morphological Analysis, page 64:
  • Apocrine glands are distributed throughout the body but are present in greatest abundance in the axilla, followed by the anogenital region.2011, Jivko A. Kamarashev, “3.2.1: Tumours with Apocrine and Eccrine Differentiation”, in Reinhard Dummer, Mark R. Pittelkow, Keiji...
  • Two appreciate what happened, note that sweat glands come in two varieties, apocrine and eccrine.2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

Origin of apocrine

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

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Phrases with apocrine

Questions about apocrine

What does apocrine mean?
Apocrine means of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.
What is apocrine in Tamil?
Apocrine in Tamil is புறச்சுரப்பிகள், வறுவியர்ப்பு. See Apocrine meaning in Tamil.
How do you use apocrine in a sentence?
Lobular cysts as well as micro- and macrocysts are very often lined to a variable extent by apocrine epithelium.
What part of speech is apocrine?
Apocrine is an adjective.
How do you pronounce apocrine?
Apocrine is pronounced /ˈæpəˌkɹɪn/.

Words near apocrine in the dictionary

  1. apocoped
  2. apocopes
  3. apocopic
  4. apocrenate
  5. apocrenates
  6. apocrine
  7. apocrine acne
  8. apocrine gland
  9. apocrine glands
  10. apocrinitis
  11. apocrisarii

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