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demi·lune

n :  one of the small crescentic groups of granular deeply staining zymogen-secreting cells lying between the clearer mucus-producing cells and the basement membrane in the alveoli of mixed salivary glands - called also crescent of Giannuzzi  .
 
 

 
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