acinus.
One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
Meaning & usage
One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
A grape-stone.
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.
Where this word comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.
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