Merocrine vs Null - What's the difference?
merocrine | null |
(anatomy, biology, histology) Of or pertaining to certain exocrine glands that secrete without major damage to the secretory cells.
* 1982 , Vladimir Evgen?evich Sokolov, Mammal Skin , University of California Press,
* 2011 , S. M. Kisia, Vertebrates: Structures and Functions ,
* 2013 , Nancy A. Monteiro-Riviere, 16: Integument'', Jo Ann Eurell, Brian L. Frappier (editors), ''Dellmann's Textbook of Veterinary Histology , 6th Edition,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective merocrine
is (anatomy|biology|histology) of or pertaining to certain exocrine glands that secrete without major damage to the secretory cells.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.merocrine
English
Adjective
(-)page 20,
- Merocrine' cells have several full secretion cycles — the ' merocrine secretion cell does not die when it secretes into the lumen of the gland.
page 53,
- Secretions from glands are produced by merocrine', apocrine and holocrine modes of secretion (Fig. 3.4). In '''merocrine secretion''', membrane bound secretory vesicles are formed and accumulate below the free surface of the cell.There is no loss of cytoplasm in ' merocrine secretion.
page 338,
- The planum rostrale of pigs has tactile (sinus) hairs distributed over the surface and numerous large merocrine sweat glands.
Synonyms
* (of or pertaining to certain exocrine glands) eccrineCoordinate terms
* apocrine * holocrine ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.