Secarecytosis is a process involved in the development of a bird's lung cells, before the bird hatches from its egg. It is the processes of cell cutting during attenuation of the tubular epithelium of the developing avian lung. The word "secarecytosis" is derived from the Latin word "secare" which means "to cut".
Secarecytosis differs from holocrine and apocrine secretory mechanisms in that it occurs only during development and that portions of cells, complete with their organelles, are lost. It has three documented phenotypes. These are:
The process was initially described in the domestic chicken but it has also been shown to occur in the ostrich.
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