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Acini vs Lobule - What's the difference?

acini | lobule |

As nouns the difference between acini and lobule

is that acini is irregular plural of acinus while lobule is a small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

acini

English

Noun

(head)
  • (acinus)
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    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

    lobule

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.
  • (botany) In liverworts with bilobed leaves, the smaller of the two lobes, sometimes modified to form a sac.
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  • The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule', usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some ''Frullania'' taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the '''lobules''', and ''Neohattoria'' has caducous ' lobules but persistent lobes.

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