Apocrine vs Endocrine - What's the difference?
apocrine | endocrine |
(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 ,
* 2003 , Marton Lanyi, Mammography: Diagnosis and Morphological Analysis ,
* 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 ,
Producing internal secretions that are transported around the body by the bloodstream.
Pertaining to the endocrine glands or their secretions.
As adjectives the difference between apocrine and endocrine
is that apocrine is (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 while endocrine is producing internal secretions that are transported around the body by the bloodstream.As a noun endocrine is
the secretion of an endocrine gland.apocrine
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(wikipedia apocrine)Adjective
(-)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."
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.
page 128,
- Apocrine glands are distributed throughout the body but are present in greatest abundance in the axilla, followed by the anogenital region.