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Definition of Merocrine
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a gland which secretes without major damage to its secretory cells. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Merocrine
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Merocrine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Merocrine
Literary usage of Merocrine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"... in body weight (Jackson, 1913), and sexual merocrine variation in the same
animal increases concomitantly with increase in body weight (Ha tai, 1914). ..."
2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The cell is a glandular closed cell having a merocrine secretion, formed in the
small, peripheral vacuoles. The secretion is acid and collects in the center ..."
3. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"For the majority of the thyroid cells the secretion affects the merocrine type.
This means that a part only of the cell is used by the secreting process. ..."
4. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"Applied to a gland the cell of which, after having elaborated the material of
secretion, falls into disuse and disappears. Cf. merocrine. of the vessels of ..."
5. Zentralblatt für Physiologie: Organ der Deutschen physiologischen Gesellschaft by Deutsche Physiologische Gesellschaft, Physiologische Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Morphologisch-Physiologische Gesellschaft zu Wien (1906)
"... abgestoßen werden, und „La phase merocrine", während welcher eine ununterbrochene
Sekretion von selten des ..."
6. Lehrbuch der vergleichenden mikroskopischen Anatomie der Wirbeltiere by Albert Oppel (1900)
"RANVIER 87b und 88b teilt die Drüsen bei seinen Studien über die Sekretion in
holocrine und merocrine und beschreibt bei denen der ersten Art eine ..."
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