Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Relating to a type of glandular secretion in which the apical portion of the secreting cell is released along with the secretory products.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland, or to its secretions
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion
Etymologies
- Probably from Greek apokrīnein, to set apart : apo-, apo- + krīnein, to separate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“Deodorants mask the odor produced by apocrine glands in the armpits but generally don't fight underarm sweating.”
“The apocrine glands, which develop during puberty, are also attached to hair follicles in the genital area and the underarms and secrete sweat and body odor linked to sexual pheromones.”
“Then my dog starts air-scenting him because now he ` s all pumped up with what ` s called apocrine.”
“And apocrine glands, which produce sweat, are reduced with age.”
“The specific stink they are interested in comes from the apocrine glands in the armpit, which only secrete during times of arousal, such as stress.”
“Sam Shuster, professor of dermatology at the University of East Anglia, believes the revolutionary thinker had hidradenitis suppurativa HS in which the apocrine sweat glands – found mainly in the armpits and groin – become blocked and inflamed.”
“They are the apocrine, eccrine, and sebaceous glands.”
“This is a chronic and stubborn disease centred on inflammation of the large specialised sweat glands apocrine glands found mainly in the armpits and groins.”
“Our abundance of eccrine glands and relative lack of apocrine glands makes humans, in a word, weird.”
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