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apocrine Definition


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apocrine
adj
    1. Denoting any of various sweat glands located in hairy regions of the body.
    2. Denoting any secretion that contains part of the cytoplasm of the secretory cell.
Etymology: 1920s: from Greek apo away + crine, from krinein to separate.



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