Acinus vs Acinous - What's the difference?
acinus | acinous |
(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
As a noun acinus
is (botany) one of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.As an adjective acinous is
.acinus
English
Noun
(acini) (wikipedia acinus)- Their smallest lobules were called acini , a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules