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Acini vs Acinic - What's the difference?

acini | acinic |

As a noun acini

is (acinus).

As an adjective acinic is

acinar.

acini

English

Noun

(head)
  • (acinus)
  • ----

    acinus

    English

    Noun

    (acini) (wikipedia acinus)
  • (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.
  • * Richard Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy
  • Their smallest lobules were called acini , a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules

    acinic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • acinar