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Definition of Acervulus
1. Noun. Small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi.
Definition of Acervulus
1. Noun. calcified concretions near the pineal gland; brain sand ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acervulus
1. a spore-producing organ of certain fungi [n -LI]
Medical Definition of Acervulus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acervulus
Literary usage of Acervulus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man: Delivered by Sir William Lawrence (1828)
"From the very accurate researches of the WENZELS, it appears that a deficiency
of the acervulus is not BO unfrequent as has been represented by SOF. ..."
2. Obstetrics: The Science and the Art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1856)
"It is outside of, or beyond the white zone or zona pellucida, that ate to be seen
the smaller granules of the cumulus or acervulus, so that the globular ..."
3. Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural by Sir William Lawrence (1848)
"sandy or earthy matter of the pineal gland (acervulus pinealis), belongs to the
... They mention six instances, in which the acervulus did not exist. ..."
4. A System of Human Anatomy by John Gordon (1815)
"After this, they become gradually larger, in proportion to the age of the Foetus
and of the Child J. There is no acervulus on the Pineal Gland, before Birth ..."
5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"The conidia of these fungi are well known to be quite variable in size and shape,
and it is frequently possible to find in. a single acervulus conidia ..."
6. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"... acervulus m tendril-like masses which are quickly RIUM PADI spread out over
the surface by dew and other agencies, appearing at first as a pale or ashen ..."
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