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merocrine

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merocrine /mero·crine/ (mer´o-krin) discharging only the secretory product and maintaining the secretory cell intact (e.g., salivary glands, pancreas).
mer·o·crine (mr-krn, -krn, -krn)
adj.
Of or relating to a gland whose secretory cells remain undamaged during secretion.
merocrine
partly secreting; denoting that type of glandular secretion in which the secreting cell remains intact throughout the process of formation and discharge of the secretory products, as in the salivary and pancreatic glands; see also apocrine, holocrine.


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