apocrine

1. 1.

   (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion

   “mother's milk is one apocrine secretion”

   Antonymseccrine

Questions about apocrine

What does apocrine mean?

apocrine means "(of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion".

How many syllables are in apocrine?

apocrine has 3 syllables: a-po-crine. The stress falls on "a".

What is the opposite of apocrine?

The recorded antonyms are eccrine.

Is apocrine a common word?

apocrine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.