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apocrine gland

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apocrine gland
n.
1. A coiled, tubular gland whose secretory cells accumulate their products on their apical surfaces that are then pinched off to become the secretion, as in the mammary glands.
2. Apocrine sweat gland.


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Mature adipose tissue, fibrous tissue, and a few apocrine glands were also present.
Nasopharyngeal teratoma in an adult by Goh, Hood Keng Christopher / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
When sweat, especially from the apocrine glands (sweat glands in underarms and around genitals), mixes with bacteria on the skin surface, the byproduct is body odor.
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Histopathologic study identified a papillomatous hyperplasia of the hyperkeratotic surface epithelium and a large number of underlying mature sebaceous glands, keratin-filled infundibula, small hair structures, and deep apocrine glands (figure 3).
A rare case of a sebaceous nevus in the external auditory canal. ... by Downey, Maj. Timothy J. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
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