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Recesses vs Acinus - What's the difference?

recesses | acinus |

As nouns the difference between recesses and acinus

is that recesses is (recess) while acinus is (botany) one of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

As a verb recesses

is (recess).

recesses

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (recess)

    • 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