apocrine
Adjective
Meaning
(of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion
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mother's milk is one apocrine secretion
The follicles present on the guard hairs from the wolf's back have clusters of apocrine and sebaceous glands at their bases.
The demonstration of Lafora bodies within the apocrine sweat gland of the skin by an axillary skin biopsy examination is a classic approach that may now be substituted by genetic testing.
It has a permeable SC, a high density of apocrine glands and hair follicles, and is richly innervated.
In addition to eccrine sweat glands, apocrine glands are the other type of sweat gland.