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Apocrine

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Apocrine is the adjective used to describe a gland which loses a portion of its protoplasm during secretion.

Examples include:

  • apocrine sweat glands
  • mammary glands
  • ceruminous glands of ear canal
  • glands of Moll in eyelid

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