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Apocrine - What does it mean?

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apocrine

English

(wikipedia apocrine)

Adjective

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  • (anatomy, biology, histology) Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.
  • * 2001 , Paul Peter Rosen, Rosen's Breast Pathology , page 97,
    • 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."
  • * 2003 , Marton Lanyi, Mammography: Diagnosis and Morphological Analysis , page 64,
    • 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.
  • * 2011', Jivko A. Kamarashev, ''3.2.1: Tumours with '''Apocrine and Eccrine Differentiation'', Reinhard Dummer, Mark R. Pittelkow, Keiji Iwatsuki, Adèle Green, Nagwa M. Elwan (editors), ''Skin Cancer - A World-Wide Perspective , page 128,
    • Apocrine glands are distributed throughout the body but are present in greatest abundance in the axilla, followed by the anogenital region.

    Coordinate terms

    * holocrine * merocrine, eccrine

    See also

    * decapitation secretion

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