meaning of acinus
1. One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
2. A grapestone.
3. 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.
4. one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland
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