holocrine

Etymology
From and.

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or relating to a mode of secretion in some exocrine glands in which the plasma membrane ruptures, releasing the cell's cytoplasm into the lumen of the gland.
 * 2) * 2007, Galina N. Solntseva, N. N. Dergunova (translator), Teresa Ott (linguistic editor), Morphology of the Auditory and Vestibular Organs in Mammals, with Emphasis on Marine Species, page 42,
 * In Chiroptera and Insectivora, the holocrine glands can form glandular complexes.
 * In Chiroptera and Insectivora, the holocrine glands can form glandular complexes.