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from The Century Dictionary.
- In cytology, of or pertaining to gland-cells which accumulate their secretion in the cytoplasm in the form of droplets and then permit it to escape by breaking through the surface cytoplasm, as, for example, in the goblet-cells of the intestine: opposed to
diacrinous .
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