Definition of Acinic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).

Exact synonyms: Acinar, Acinose, Acinous
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

acinar
acinar carcinoma
acinar cell
acinar cell tumour
acinesia
acinesic
acinetae
acinetic
acinetiform
acinetobacter
acinetobacter calcoaceticus
acinetobacter infections
acinetobacters
acing
acini
acinic (current term)
acinic cell adenocarcinoma
acinic cell carcinoma
aciniform
acinitis
acinose
acinote
acinotubular
acinotubular gland
acinous
acinous carcinoma
acinous cell
acinous gland
acinus
acipenser

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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