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Holocrine (from
Ancient Gr**** ὅλος; hólos, “whole, entire” + κρῑ́νω; krī́nō, “to separate”) is a term used to
classify the mode of
secretion in exocrine...
- secreted,
exocrine glands are
categorized as merocrine, apocrine, or
holocrine.
Merocrine – the
cells of the
gland excrete their substances by exocytosis...
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releases its
product and no part of the
gland is lost or
damaged (compare
holocrine and apocrine). The term
eccrine is
specifically used to
designate merocrine...
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region and axillae.
Apocrine secretion is less
damaging to the
gland than
holocrine secretion (which
destroys a cell) but more
damaging than
merocrine secretion...
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sweat gland of arm pit,
pubic region, skin
around ****, lips and nipples)
Holocrine glands – the
entire cell
disintegrates to
secrete its substances. (e.g...
- of
feathers to
provide a wick for the
preen oil (see below). It is a
holocrine gland enclosed in a
connective tissue capsule made up of
glandular acini...
- is the same
hormone that
causes lactation in mammals. Crop milk is a
holocrine secretion,
unlike in
mammals where milk is an
apocrine secretion. Crop...
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Femoral pores are a part of a
holocrine secretory gland found on the
inside of the
thighs of
certain lizards and
amphisbaenians which releases pheromones...
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snake glands are
holocrine glands,
meaning that the gland's
cells are
secreted along with the
substance the
gland makes.
These holocrine glands in snakes...
- eccrisis, eccritic, endocrine, endocrinology, exocrine, heterocrine,
holocrine, hypercriticism, hypocrisy, hypocrite, kritarchy, Kritosaurus, merocrine...
