Anastomosing tubular arrangement of the exocrine pancreas.
Wax reconstructions of zymogen-containing cells in rat show the arrangement of the exocrine pancreas to be a branching, anastomosing system of tubules which vary in diameter and end blindly. This arrangement is not that of a true acinar gland.
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