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ac·i·nus 
[as-uh-nuhs] Pronunciation Key
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[as-uh-nuhs] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural -ni
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[-nahy] Pronunciation Key. | 1. | Botany. one of the small drupelets or berries of an aggregate, baccate fruit, as the blackberry. |
| 2. | a berry, as a grape or currant. |
| 3. | Anatomy.
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[Origin: 1725–35; < L: grape, berry, seed of a berry]
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| ac·i·nus
(ās'ə-nəs) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. ac·i·ni (-nī') One of the small saclike dilations composing a compound gland. [Latin, berry.] a·cin'ic (ə-sĭn'ĭk), ac'i·nous adj. |
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| acinus | |
noun | |
| 1. | one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry |
| 2. | one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland |
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
a·cin'ic (ə-sĭn'ĭk) or ac'i·nose' (ās'ə-nōs') or ac'i·nous (-nəs) adj.
acinus ac·i·nus (ās'ə-nəs)
n. pl. ac·i·ni (-nī')
Any of several minute grape-shaped secretory portions of an acinous gland.
a·cin'ic (ə-sĭn'ĭk) or ac'i·nose' (ās'ə-nōs') or ac'i·nous (-nəs) adj.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Acinus
Ac"i*nus\, n.; pl. Acini. [L., grape, grapestone.]1. (Bot.) (a) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. (b) A grapestone. 2. (Anat.) 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. --Quain.
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