Acinus

A tiny sac which forms part of a gland.


Part of a lobule in the lung.


Acini, general term for a small saclike structure, esp. that found in a gland, acinar, acinic, acinose, acinous.


Each of the minute sacs of which secreting glands are composed, and which usually cluster around the branches of the gland-duct, like grapes on their stem.


The smallest division of a gland; a group of secretory cells surrounding a cavity.


 


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