acinus
acinus (ass-in-ŭs) n. (pl. acini) 1. a small sac or cavity surrounded by the secretory cells of a gland.
2. (in the lung) the tissue supplied with air by one terminal bronchiole.
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acinous adj.
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Gisli Palsson, Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Manitoba History; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson Translated from the Icelandic...recent years, the work of Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition...and charismatic leader? Vilhjalmur Stefansson was born in Arnes, Manitoba...
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The Stefansson enigma.(Travelling Passions: The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson )(The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1916 )(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...The Hidden Life of Vilhjalmur Stefansson by Gisli Palsson...and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Gisli Palsson...their father, Alex Stefansson, and grandmother...have wanted to join Vilhjalmur in New York City...
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Radical "second life" of Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
Magazine article from: Arctic; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...explorer, scientist, and author Vilhjalmur Stefansson. A tireless proponent of settlement...country [Canada], it was Vilhjalmur Stefansson. A hero in the United States...10 October 1935, Cohen sent Vilhjalmur Stefansson a le
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The Arctic Hedonist. (At Large And At Small).(arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...hands with the arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Our degrees of separation...bonds (Let's see ... Stefansson must have met Amundsen in...have therefore considered Vilhjalmur Stefansson "my explorer." During the...
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Arctic Dreamer: the Lonely Quest of Vilhjalmur Stefansson.(More Books)(Video Recording Review)
Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History; 8/1/2004; 584 words
; Arctic Dreamer: The Lonely Quest of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Directed by Peter Raymont and Tom Radford Born at Arnes, Manitoba, to Icelandic immigrants, Vilhjalmur Stefansson was a pioneering and prickly twentieth-century...
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Arctic explorer Stefansson too big for small book
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 5/17/2009; ; 700+ words
; Vilhjalmur Stefansson By Tom Henighan Dundurn, 216 pages, $20 IF it is true that...traversing the Northwest Passage by land And finally, there was Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who was perhaps the greatest and certainly the most controversial...
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Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vihjalmur Stefansson
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2002; ; 397 words
; ...Writing on Ice: The Ethnographic Notebooks of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Gish Palsson (Ed.). 2001. University Press...Anthropologist, explorer, and ethnologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson made three major expeditions to the Alaskan and...
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He Made the Arctic Friendly
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Vilhjalmur Stefansson, a Canadian-born American of...At the fifth anniversary of the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland...address, which is excerpted here. VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON [WAS] A MAN WHOSE NATURAL abilities...
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Arctic Hedonist. (The Reader Replies).(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...me to a lecture by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. I don't recall...Philonoe responds: Stefansson's "secret" was...thoroughly Icelandic." Vilhjalmur was so hard to pronounce...the last century, Stefansson lectured several times...
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The Making of an Explorer: George Hubert Wilkins and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1916.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Arctic; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...by the Gaumont Company to Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition...self-serving behaviour of Stefansson as expedition leader, as...on the complex character of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The text is wonderfully...
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Vilhjalmur Stefansson The Canadian-American Arctic explorer, scientist, and author Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879-1962) discovered new...on Eskimo life and language. Vilhjalmur Stefansson was born near Arnes, Manitoba...
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Wrangel Island
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Russians made a landing on the island, and in 1921 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Canadian explorer, sent a small party to...first permanent colony there, ousting the few of Stefansson's Eskimo settlers who had remained. The Soviet...
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Banks Island
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...occasional trappers. British explorer Sir Robert McClure discovered that it was an island in 1851. Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent much time (1914-17) there and explored the interior.
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Sir George Hubert Wilkins
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Australia. He made a number of trips to Antarctica and to the Arctic. Valuable experience gained when he accompanied Vilhjalmur Stefansson's expedition (1913-18) to the Arctic and Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition (1921-22) to Antarctica...
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Sir Martin Frobisher
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...several editions. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher by George Best was edited from the original 1578 text by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1937). Bibliography: See biography by J. McDermott (2001); study by R. Ruby (2001).
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