Acini vs Follicle - What's the difference?
acini | follicle |
(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
(anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
* 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, p. 345,
(botany) A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.
As nouns the difference between acini and follicle
is that acini is (acinus) while follicle is (anatomy) a small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.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
follicle
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(en noun)- He could feel the follicles in his inner ear go crazy.
