"merocrine" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1982, Vladimir Evgenʹevich Sokolov, Mammal Skin, University of California Press, page 20:",
          "text": "Merocrine cells have several full secretion cycles — the merocrine secretion cell does not die when it secretes into the lumen of the gland.",
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          "ref": "2011, S. M. Kisia, Vertebrates: Structures and Functions, page 53:",
          "text": "Secretions from glands are produced by merocrine, apocrine and holocrine modes of secretion (Fig. 3.4). In merocrine secretion, membrane bound secretory vesicles are formed and accumulate below the free surface of the cell.[…]There is no loss of cytoplasm in merocrine secretion.",
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          "text": "The planum rostrale of pigs has tactile (sinus) hairs distributed over the surface and numerous large merocrine sweat glands.",
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