Usually means: Gland secreting pheromones, proteins, lipids.
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  1. apocrine gland: Merriam-Webster
  2. apocrine gland: Vocabulary.com
  3. apocrine-gland, apocrine gland: Wiktionary
  4. apocrine gland: Dictionary.com
  5. Apocrine gland: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. apocrine gland: Rhymezone
  7. apocrine gland: FreeDictionary.org
  8. apocrine gland: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. apocrine gland: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. apocrine gland: Merriam-Webster

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  1. apocrine gland: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. apocrine gland: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. apocrine gland: Medical dictionary
  5. Excessive Sweating (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apocrine gland)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) Any of several coiled, tubular glands that extrudes part of the cytoplasm as a secretion.

Similar:
exocrine, ectocrine, adenomere, gland, decapitation secretion, adenocyte, scent gland, acrosyringium, pseudogland, sex gland, more...

Opposite:
eccrine gland, merocrine gland

Phrases:
Apocrine sweat gland, more...

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Similar:
exocrine, ectocrine, adenomere, gland, decapitation secretion, adenocyte, scent gland, acrosyringium, pseudogland, sex gland, more...

Opposite:
eccrine gland, merocrine gland

Phrases:
Apocrine sweat gland, more...



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