apocrineadj.
/ˈapəkrʌɪn/, /ˈapəkrɪn/, U.S. /ˈæpəkrən/, /ˈæpəˌkraɪn/, /ˈæpəˌkrin/ Histology.
(See quot. 1961.)
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pituita1598
pituitary1615
lymphatic1649
conglomerated1656
conglobate1666
conglomerate1666
conglobated1676
lymphic1681
conglobulate1709
sudoriferous1713
sudorific1721
sebaceous1728
trajectory1747
cryptal1754
cryptous1804
muciparous1825
racemose1834
racemiform1837
ganglionary1842
muciferous1842
sudoriparous1851
sebiparous1853
racemous1854
sebiferous1858
perilymphangial1873
lymphadenoid1877
perilymphatic1877
mucigenous1881
pituital1890
tubuloracemosec1900
acinic1903
holocrine1905
merocrine1905
exocrine1911
endocrine1914
endocrinic1914
endocrinous1914
endocrinal1923
apocrine1926
eccrine1931
psychoendocrine1946
acinar1949
nodal1954
mucigenic1965
1926 H. Homma in Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. XXXVIII. 365 (title) On apocrine sweat glands in white and Negro men and women.
1940 Macleod & 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.
1955 Sci. News Let. 1 Oct. 213/2 The distinctive apocrine odor of the axilla (underarms).
1961 A. S. MacNalty Brit. 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.
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