More recent research has also shown that merocrine secretion takes place.
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The term "'eccrine "'is specifically used to designate merocrine secretions from sweat glands ( eccrine sweat glands ).
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Holocrine secretion is the most damaging ( to the cell itself and not to the host of which begot the cell ) type of secretion, with merocrine secretion being the least damaging and apocrine secretion falling in between.