Definitions for "Apocrine Gland"
Keywords:  armpit, sweat, groin, gland, anogenital
One of two types of sweat gland, located in several places including the armpits, face and groin. The sweat produced is normally oil based as opposed to common water based sweat and is rarely affected by Sympathectomy.
a type of gland in which the secretory products gather at the free end of the secreting cell and are pinched off, along with some of the cytoplasm, to become the secretion, as in the mammary glands
a large sweat gland that produces both a fluid and an apocrine secretion; in human beings located in hairy regions of the body