holocrine in English
adjective
(about a gland) secreting products formed by the breakdown of glandular cells
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1. Denoting a type of glandular secretion in which part of the secreting cell is lost with the secretion, as in mammary glandsCompare merocrine, holocrine Word Origin for Apocrine C20: from apo- + -crine, from Greek krinein to separate