acinus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
  2. A grape-stone.
  3. 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.
    — Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]

词形变化

acini plural

词汇关系

衍生词
acinal acinar acinic acinitis pseudoacinus

词源

Unadapted borrowing from Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.
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