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apocrine, a. Histol.|ˈæpəkrɪn|
[f. apo- + Gr. κρίν-ειν to separate.]
(See quot. 1961.)
1926H. Homma in Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. XXXVIII. 365 (title) On apocrine sweat glands in white and Negro men and women. 1940Macleod & Muende Handbk. Path. Skin xxiv. 252 Instead of opening on the surface of the skin like the small sweat-glands, the apocrine glands open into the hair-follicle between the funnel and the mouth of the sebaceous gland. 1955Sci. News Let. 1 Oct. 213/2 The distinctive apocrine odor of the axilla (underarms). 1961Brit. Med. Dict. 123/1 Apocrine. 1. A term descriptive of a gland cell which loses part of its protoplasmic substance when it is secreting. 2. Applied to sweat glands which differ from ordinary (eccrine) sweat glands in that they occur only in hairy regions. |