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Definition of Acinic
1. Adjective. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
Partainyms: Acinus, Acinus, Acinus, Acinus
Derivative terms: Acinus, Acinus, Acinus
Definition of Acinic
1. Adjective. acinar ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acinic
1. acinus [adj] - See also: acinus
Medical Definition of Acinic
1. Pertaining to the acinus. Synonym: acinic. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acinic
Literary usage of Acinic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1920)
"Many of these islets were almost entirely normal, although there was no vestige
of acinic tissue around them (Fig. 9). Some islets were decreased in size, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"... remain spheroidal or ovoidal and do not remain in their normal acinic arrangement
although they may still retain their acinic habitat. ..."
3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1896)
"... by the openings of hollowed spaces of glands, sinuses and ducts, many of the
larger proceeding from conglomerate glands, others from acinic lobules, ..."
4. Medical and Surgical Memoirs: Containing Investigations on the Geographical by Joseph Jones (1876)
"In each one of these six cases, the malarial fever ad not been arrested, and the
patients exhibited its effects in their pale, sallow, and acinic line. ..."
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