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Acinus

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(Lat. for a berry), a term in botany applied to such fruits as the blackberry or raspberry, composed of small seedlike berries, and also to those berries themselves, or to grapestones. By analogy, acinus is applied in anatomy to similar granules or glands, or lobules of a gland.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Acinus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/acinus.html. 1910.
 
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