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Definition of Acinar
1. Adjective. Pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland).
Partainyms: Acinus, Acinus, Acinus, Acinus
Derivative terms: Acinus, Acinus, Acinus
2. Adjective. Pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry.
Definition of Acinar
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located in an acinus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acinar
1. acinus [adj] - See also: acinus
Medical Definition of Acinar
1. Pertaining to the acinus. Synonym: acinic. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acinar
Literary usage of Acinar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"It includes especially the tubular and some acinar carcinomas of Cornil and others.
It is impossible to claim that every tubular carcinoma originates from ..."
2. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"Direct Toxic Effects of Alcohol on acinar Cells Most recent research into the
... This direction of research is not unreasonable given that the acinar cell ..."
3. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Histopathologic data revealed that treatment of animals with a high dose of
nicotine enhanced the appearance of numerous vacuoles in the pancreatic acinar ..."
4. Normal histology and microscopical anatomy by Jeremiah Sweetser Ferguson (1904)
"Thus the centro-acinar cells of Langerhans are produced, and consequently the
centro- acinar cells correspond closely in appearance with those of the ..."
5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"Within the tumour, small ducts surrounded by a few strands of collagen and
resembling the fine extra-acinar ducts of normal pancreatic tissue are ..."
6. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"The excretory ducts proceed from fusiform and stellate cells in the interior of
the alveoli, forming the so-called centro-acinar cells. ..."
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