(Medicine)relating to or denoting multicellular glands which do not lose cytoplasm in their secretions, especially the sweat glands found widely distributed on the skin (医)分泌腺的;外分泌腺的。 比较 apocrine
语源
1930s: from Greek ekkrinein 'secrete', from ek- 'out' + krinein 'sift, separate'