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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

eccrine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɛk.ɹin/ (US)
  • /ˈɛk.ɹɪn/ (US)
  • /ˈɛk.ɹaɪn/ (US)
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek, “out of”) and κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to a sweat gland.
  2. (not-comparable) Pertaining to sweat.
  3. (not-comparable) Exocrine.

Deriveds

eccrine gland · eccrinology · perieccrine

Hypernyms

merocrine

Relateds

apocrine · merocrine