Acinus
ACINUS (Lat. for a berry), a term in botany applied to such fruits as the blackberry or raspberry, composed of small seedlike berries, and also to those berries themselves, or to grapestones. By analogy, acinus is applied in anatomy to similar granules or glands, or lobules of a gland.
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
