holocrine

  • 81ovarian — Synonyms and related words: adrenal, cervical, clitoral, eccrine, endocrine, exocrine, genital, glandular, glandulous, gonadal, holocrine, humoral, luteal, merocrine, pancreatic, penial, penile, phallic, prostatic, scrotal, seminal, spermatic,… …

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  • 82splenetic — Synonyms and related words: acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, adrenal, bearish, bitchy, bitter, blase, burning, cankered, cantankerous, caustic, choleric, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross grained,… …

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  • 83ολοκρινής — ές (για εξωκρινή αδένα) αυτός τού οποίου το έκκριμα αποτελείται από ολόκληρα εκκριτικά κύτταρα. [ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Αντιδάνεια λ., πρβλ. αγγλ. holocrine < ολ(ο) * + κρινής (< κρίνω «χωρίζω, αποφασίζω»), πρβλ. μερο κρινής, ειλικρινής (ειλι κρινής (< …

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  • 84body — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. torso (See body); solid, mass; group, assemblage; substance, bulk; main part. See whole, party. II Physical structure Nouns 1. body, anatomy, torso; carcass, cadaver, corpse, remains (See …

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  • 85sebaceous glands — n. many holocrine glands in the skin that generally open into the hair follicles and secrete sebum …

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  • 86secretion — n. 1) the process by which a gland isolates constituents of the blood or tissue fluid and chemically alters them to produce a substance that it discharges for use by the body or excretes. The principal methods of secretion – apocrine, holocrine,… …

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  • 87sebaceous gland —    Oil secreting glands, mostly clustered around hair follicles. The oil, sebum, is released into the oil glands from the disintegrated cytoplasm of shedding holocrine cells that line the alveolar surfaces. The nature of the secretion is often a… …

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  • 88merocrine — ˈmerəkrə̇n, əˌkrīn adjective Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary mer (III) + crine (from Greek krinein to separate) more at certain : producing a secretion that is discharged without major damage to the secreting cells; also …

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  • 89hol|o|crine — «HOL uh krihn, kryn», adjective. 1. that produces a secretion consisting of cells which have disintegrated: »a holocrine gland. 2. of or produced by such a gland. ╂[< holo + Greek krínein to separate] …

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