apocrine

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On the other hand, the sweat that comes from the "apocrine" glands (usually located under the arm pits, the genital areas and around the nipples) contain proteins and oily substances that bacteria can feed on and break down to cause body odour.

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  1. adjective Relating to a type of glandular secretion in which the apical portion of the secreting cell is released along with the secretory products.

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  • They are the apocrine, eccrine, and sebaceous glands. —  Buchanan, Edna - Cold Case Squad (v1.0) (html).html
  • Extramammary Paget's disease is a rare cutaneous, slow growing, intraepithelial adenocarcinoma developing in the apocrine gland-bearing areas. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • Although sclerosing adenosis, apocrine metaplasia, duct ectasia, lipoma, fat necrosis, and mastitis are scary sounding, they aren't serious and do not increase risk of breast cancer. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Fox-Fordyce disease is an rarely happing chronic pruritic papular eruption that place to areas where apocrine glands are create. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • This condition is also referred to as 'apocrine duct occlusion' and 'sweat retention disease'. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Probably from Greek apokrīnein, to set apart : apo-, apo- + krīnein, to separate; see krei- in Indo-European roots.
 

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