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Definition of Acini
1. acinus [n] - See also: acinus
Medical Definition of Acini
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acini
Literary usage of Acini
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of normal histology: including an account of the development of by George Arthur Piersol (1904)
"From the larger branches, which run within the interlobular tissue, small twigs
pass between the alveoli and break up into capillaries surrounding the acini ..."
2. Manual of Human and Comparative Histology by Salomon Stricker, Henry Power (1872)
"If the fat be extracted from the contents of the acini by means of aether, ...
Connective tissue constitutes another element of the wall of the acini, ..."
3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"Neoplastic acini can be broadly grouped into two types, small and large, ...
Small acini (Fig. 2) are generally rather rounded and regular in shape and lack ..."
4. Lessons in Pathological Histology by Gustave Roussy, Ivan Bertrand (1922)
"In the upper part of the drawing the goiter is characterized by the presence of
a large number of small acini mostly empty of colloid; in the lower part the ..."
5. The Physiology of Man: Designed to Represent the Existing State of by Austin Flint (1874)
"m, nipple; It, larger ducts ; r, email duct; u, acini. 1 Sir Astley Cooper, in
bis admirable monograph upon the anatomy and diseases of the breast, ..."