Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
acinus .
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- noun Plural form of
acinus .
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Examples
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This is made from small pasta balls called acini de pepe-Italian for peppercorns (fregola or orzo can be substituted) - that have been cooked, drained, and cooled, then mixed with a tub of whipped topping, canned crushed pineapple, and canned mandarin orange segments.
Deep Fried Kudzu ginger 2010
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This is made from small pasta balls called acini de pepe-Italian for peppercorns (fregola or orzo can be substituted) - that have been cooked, drained, and cooled, then mixed with a tub of whipped topping, canned crushed pineapple, and canned mandarin orange segments.
Deep Fried Kudzu ginger 2010
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Due to the demand for a pasta element in the mac n cheese melt we are adding acini di pepe to the cheese sauce.
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I think they need more than a sprinkling of acini di peppe with the cheese sauce.
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I also add cannellini beans sometimes, and I use acini di pepe pastina.
escarole and orzo soup with meatballs | smitten kitchen 2008
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In 1903-1904, Rennie, by anatomical studies in certain Teleostei, gave strong support to the view of Diamare, that the islet cells in these fishes exist as separate glands of relatively large size and more or less independent of the pancreatic acini.
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It had previously been observed by Schulze and by Ssobolev that the ligation of the duct involved the atrophy of the acini but not of insulae.
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By careful studies of the cytological characteristics of the cells of these islets, as distinguished from those of the much more numerous secreting acini among which they lie, and by painstaking examination of the anatomical relationships of the two kinds of cells in different classes of vertebrates, Laguesse and Diamare concluded that the islets must be responsible for the antidiabetic influence.
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A distinct step forward was taken in 1900 when Schulze and Ssobolev discovered that the degenerative changes which follow ligation of the ducts affect the cells of the acini much more markedly than those of the islets, and although among those who repeated these researches, there were some who failed to corroborate the findings, the conclusions of
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Each lobule consists of a number of acini, lined by columnar epithelial cells, opening into one duct, which joins with the ducts of other lobules outside the gland to form the single excretory duct.
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