Medical Terminology / Unit 13 MedTerm 0865 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-crine: To Secrete
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The idea
The suffix crine names secretion, the release of a substance from a gland.
In practice
Endocrine and exocrine both take this suffix with opposite prefixes.
Where people slip
Crine names the act of releasing, not the substance released.
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