acinus

IPA: ʌsˈinʌs

(botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
(botany) A grape-stone.
(anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.

Examples of "acinus" in Sentences

The distal acinus or alveoli are unchanged.
RACEMUS R A R JA. ACEMUS (from pa£, fayo;, acinus racemi).
Histological examination showed that there were no healthy acinus cells.
There are multiples of bronchioles that conduct air to the acinus, or small sac, which is the lung as we generally think of it.
Having read this article, the idea presented itself that by ligating the duct and allowing time for the degeneration of the acinus cells,
The second type of extract was made from the pancreas of dogs in which acinus cells had been exhausted of trypsin by the long-continued injection of secretin.
On October 30th, 1920, I was attracted by an article by Moses Baron, in which he pointed out the similarity between the degenerative changes in the acinus cells of the pancreas following experimental ligation of the duct, and the changes following blockage of the duct with gallstones.