Usually means: Glands releasing secretions with cytoplasm.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. apocrine: Merriam-Webster
  2. apocrine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apocrine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apocrine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apocrine: Vocabulary.com
  6. apocrine: Wiktionary
  7. apocrine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. apocrine: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. apocrine: Dictionary.com
  10. Apocrine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. apocrine: Rhymezone
  12. apocrine: FreeDictionary.org
  13. apocrine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. apocrine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. apocrine: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. apocrine: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. apocrine: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (apocrine)

adjective:  (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.

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