acini
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noun
- One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- A grape-stone.
- 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.
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papillaemesenchymelobuleseccrinemetaplasiatunicatubulehamartomaomentumleiomyomaantrumexocrineapocrinestriated musclefibromaparotid