SECRETORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secretory mean? 

• SECRETORY (adjective)
  The adjective SECRETORY has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or producing a secretion

  Familiarity information: SECRETORY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECRETORY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or producing a secretion

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a secretory cell

Pertainym:

secretion (a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell)

 Context examples 

Its cytoplasm is composed of tightly packed mitochondria and glycogen granules, with rare secretory granules, stains pink, and the margin is usually observed.

(Parathyroid Gland Oxyphil Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical variants include non-secretory myeloma, smoldering myeloma, indolent myeloma, and plasma cell leukemia.

(Plasma cell myeloma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

It is produced by the cystic proliferation of apocrine secretory glands.

(Apocrine Hidrocystoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A recombinant form of a mature, N-terminal secretory peptide derived from a parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) preprohormone through posttranslational endoproteolytic processing with vasodilating, myorelaxant, and parathyroid hormone (PTH)-like calciotropic activities.

(Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein (1-36), NCI Thesaurus)

Pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor (79 aa, ~9 kDa) is encoded by the human SPINK1 gene.

(Pancreatic Secretory Trypsin Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

Chromogranins are acidic secretory glycoproteins with a widespread but specific distribution in neuroendocrine tissues.

(Chromogranin, NCI Thesaurus)

The contraction of the myoepithelial processes forces the secretory product from the secretory unit into its duct.

(Myoepithelial Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Cancer that begins in glandular (secretory) cells.

(Adenocarcinoma, NCI Dictionary)

Mutations in the gene are associated with medulloblastomas, secretory breast carcinomas and other cancers.

(NTRK3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the gene have been associated with medulloblastomas, secretory breast carcinomas and other cancers.

(NTRK3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)