How to pronounce“apocrine”in English
You’ve got up to three million tiny sudoriferous, or sweat glands distributed throughout your body. These guys secrete your salty, watery sweat, and they come in two types: eccrine
and apocrine. Your eccrine sweat glands are more abundant -- they’re in your palms, forehead, and in the soles of your feet.
They’re just simple coiled tubes that start in the dermis, extend through a duct, and open into a pore on the surface of your skin.
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Definitions of “apocrine”
Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.
“They observed that apocrine metaplasia often was present in breasts with other "noncancerous proliferative lesions," but they found no significant difference in the frequency of apocrine metaplasia between "cancerous and noncancerous breasts."”
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