Acini vs Alvolei - What's the difference?
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(acinus)
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(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
acini
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(head)acinus
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(acini) (wikipedia acinus)- Their smallest lobules were called acini , a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules