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aporcine

aporcine is the misspelling of apocrine.

Meaning of apocrine

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

Questions about aporcine

What is aporcine the misspelling of?
Aporcine is the misspelling of apocrine.

Words near aporcine in the dictionary

  1. apoptozole
  2. apopylar
  3. apopyle
  4. apopyles
  5. apoquinamine
  6. aporcine
  7. aporeceptor
  8. aporeceptors
  9. aporematic
  10. aporematically
  11. aporeme

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