apocrine
adj/ˈæpəˌkɹɪn/
Etymology From apo- (“away from”) + Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate”).
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Anatomy, Biology, Histology, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences 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 the vulva, eyelid, and external auditory canal.2003, Marton Lanyi, Mammography: Diagnosis and Morphological Analysis, page 64:
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- 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 Iwatsuki, Adèle Green, Nagwa M. Elwan, editors, Skin Cancer - A World-Wide Perspective, page 128:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- apocrine acne, apocrinitis, microapocrine, nonapocrine
- Related terms
- decapitation secretion