abstract:Holocrine is a term used to classify the mode of secretion in exocrine glands in the study of histology. Holocrine secretions are produced in the cytoplasm of the cell and released by the rupture of the plasma membrane, which destroys the cell and results in the secretion of the product into the lumen.
ADJ
(of the secretion of glands) characterized by disintegration of the entire glandular cell in releasing its product, as in sebaceous glands (腺分泌物)全浆分泌的
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merocrine,
apocrine