apocrine
11apocrine carcinoma — adnexal carcinoma arising in an apocrine gland. 1. a rare breast malignancy with a ductal or acinar growth pattern and apocrine secretions …
12apocrine hidrocystoma — a type of benign adnexal tumor that is smooth, bluish, dome shaped, and translucent; it is usually found as a solitary lesion on the face and is an adenomatous cystic proliferation of the apocrine sweat glands. Called also apocrine cystadenoma …
13apocrine gland — noun a large sweat gland that produces both a fluid and an apocrine secretion; in human beings located in hairy regions of the body • Hypernyms: ↑sweat gland, ↑sudoriferous gland * * * noun : any of the large sweat glands that produce both a… …
14apocrine adenoma — any of numerous adnexal adenomas having differentiation toward apocrine gland tissue …
15apocrine cells — see apocrine …
16apocrine gland — a gland whose discharged secretion contains part of the secreting cells. Cf. holocrine g. and merocrine g. NOTE: the term is often used to denote the apocrine sweat glands specifically …
17apocrine poroma — a poroma arising from the sweat pore of an apocrine sweat gland …
18apocrine — Form of secretion in which the apical portion of the cell is shed, as in the secretion of fat by cells of the mammary gland. The fat droplet is surrounded by apical plasma membrane, and this has been used experimentally as a source of plasma… …
19apocrine — [ apəkrʌɪn, krɪn] adjective Physiology relating to or denoting glands which release some cytoplasm in their secretions, especially sweat glands in the armpits and pubic regions. Origin early 20th cent.: from apo + Gk krinein to separate …
20apocrine — ap·o·crine …
