apocrine secretion
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Related to apocrine secretion: Holocrine Secretion, Merocrine Secretion, eccrine secretion, sebaceous secretion
apocrine secretion
A secretion in which the apical end of a secreting cell is broken off and its contents extruded, as in the mammary gland.
See also: secretion