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One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

A grapestone.

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.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

A grapestone.

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.

Alveolus. 1. One of the minute sac-like beginnings of the excretory ducts of an acinous or alveolar gland, an aggregation of which constitutes a lobule. 2. An air-cell of the lung. 3. A lobule of the liver.

Lobule of a racemose gland.

A glandiform corpuscle, in which secretion was supposed to take place, and the excretory radicle to arise. Acini are the glob'uli arteria'rum ter'mini of Nichols. The term ac"ini glandulo'si has also been given to glands which, like the pancreas, are arranged, as it were, in clusters. Glands thus formed have been called glan'duloe acino'soe. See Lobule.

pl. acini. One of the smallest lobules of a compound gland.

PI. acini. Syn.: alveolus, insula, follicle, gland granule, gland vesicle. The smallest lobule of a racemose gland or of the liver.

One of the smallest lobules of the lung.

The cavity or saccular recess in the finest lobule of a racemose gland.

That part of the excretory duct of a racemose gland into which the cavities of several alveoli open.

One of the closed vesicles of a gland having no excretory duct, such as the thyroid.

A cell of the liver containing glycogen. [Lat.]