different between serosa vs acinus

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??s?

Noun

serosa (plural serosas or serosae)

1. A membrane which lines an internal cavity to protect the contents and which secretes serum.

Synonyms

• (membrane): serous membrane

Derived terms

• (membrane): serosal, subserosa

See also

• (membrane): mucosa, amnion, adventitia

Spanish

Adjective

serosa f

1. feminine singular of seroso

English

Etymology

From Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æs?n?s/

Noun

acinus (plural acini)

1. (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
2. (botany) A grape-stone.
3. (anatomy) 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.
   • 1828, Jones Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy

     Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]

Derived terms

• acinar
• acinic

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From aci?s (“sharp point”), due to the presence of a sharp seed inside the grape.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ki.nus/, [?äk?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.t??i.nus/, [???t??inus]

Noun

acinus m (genitive acin?); second declension

1. a berry, especially the grape.
2. the seed of a berry.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• d?racinus

Descendants

• English: acinus
• Galician: acio
• Irish: aicíneas
• Italian: acino
• Portuguese: ácino

References

• acinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• acinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette