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n. - One of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland; One of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry.

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  • Histological examination showed that there were no healthy acinus cells.
  • There are multiples of bronchioles that conduct air to the acinus, or small sac, which is the lung as we generally think of it.
  • The second type of extract was made from the pancreas of dogs in which acinus cells had been exhausted of trypsin by the long-continued injection of secretin.
  • RACEMUS R A R JA. ACEMUS (from pa£, fayo;, acinus racemi).
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