sac
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4.8
- noun
- /sæk/
- Specialized
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saco
- This allows air to be drawn in, inflating the alveoli, millions of small sacs inside our lungs.
- endolymphatic sac
- yolk sac
- lacrimal sac
A nasal SAC sits on the nose.
- A nasal SAC sits on the nose.
- So when we inhale, these little sacs in our lungs fill up and our lungs expand.
- This procedure that is being played out, thousands of venom sacs, deafening acceptance of the vicious way things must be, will keep on until it can't.
- It goes into the air sacs and the lungs and it and it interferes with the oxygen getting through to the bloodstream.
- But the only way to get DNA was to take it by needle from fluid in the amniotic SAC surrounding the fetus.
- And these sacs are very, very close to your actual blood in your bloodstream.
- I just don't want these skin sacs that look like half filled water balloons to be hanging around my rib cage.
- And then the scrotal SAC, the bit that looks like chicken skin, that is then fashioned into the labia.
Examples
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During the dissection, we observed a small fluid-filled sac within the animal's body.
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The testes are located in a sac known as the scrotum.
Academic text (2011) -
So, I need you to help me take her egg sac with us.
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Like your basic egg sac.
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See... here... right here's the sac that contains the brain.
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The mother octopus kept the egg sac clean so that water could filter through.
Fiction book (1997) -
During surgery, when a tear in the dural sac is noted, repair of the tear is attempted.
Academic text (2005) -
So when we inhale, these little sacs in our lungs fill up and our lungs expand.
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One thing to remember is that the heart is constrained by a stiff fibrous SAC called the pericardium.
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In this arrangement, hatched fish eggs, or sac fry, are reared in nursery ponds.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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5.5
A small hollow space inside a rock or object that can hold other material
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4.6
A sac on an animal's body for holding young or food
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7.9
A small sac in living things that holds fluid
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.4
A thin bag in animal embryos that holds the yolk, gives food, and helps make blood
- Specialized
A thin part of an insect's breathing tubes that holds air and helps it breathe
- Specialized
A thin sac in birds and some other animals that holds air and helps them breathe
- Specialized
A small pouch at the inner corner of the eye that collects tears before they go to the nose
- Specialized
The main space inside the belly around the stomach and intestines
- Specialized
A small pouch near the inner corner of the eye that collects tears before they drain into the nose
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A small baglike part on ferns and fungi that holds tiny cells that grow into new plants
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A thin bag in early embryos that carries blood and nutrients before the heart works
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Etymology
Sac comes from the old Latin word saccus, which means 'bag', and is the same root as the English word sack. So a sac in animals or plants is like a small bag that holds fluid, air, or other material.