What's the difference between bag and pouch?

Bag


Definition:

  • (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
  • (n.) A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
  • (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
  • (n.) The quantity of game bagged.
  • (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
  • (v. t.) To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
  • (v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
  • (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  • (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.
  • (v. i.) To become pregnant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a paired study 12 platelet concentrates (PC) of Fresenius AS-104 cell separator were stored in new polyolefin bags of Fresenius (LE2) and Fenwal PL-732 bags.
  • (2) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
  • (3) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
  • (4) After clinical examination and semen analysis, we studied 4100 patients by scrotal US with sector mechanical (7.5 MHz) probe with water bag and by transrectal US for prostatic vesicular region evaluation with 5-6.5 MHz linear probe (lately we used biplanar probe).
  • (5) Placing the collection bag at the base of the machine provided excellent plasma removal rates with only minimal blood flows.
  • (6) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (7) Six leukocyte-rich platelet concentrates (mean, 0.6 X 10(9) white cells per bag; range, 0.3 to 1.0 X 10(9) per container) were prepared by removing as much of the platelet-rich plasma from blood as possible.
  • (8) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
  • (9) It is possible that in a similar future case, discontinuance of dextran infusion and administration of a single bolus of 12 bags of cryoprecipitate may be adequate treatment.
  • (10) The accuracy and reliability of the new system were checked by comparison with the traditional (Douglas bag) method.
  • (11) Presentation of a new case of polyorchism, its first clinical evidence being a picture o acute scrotal bag requiring surgical examination.
  • (12) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
  • (13) Dynamic and static nuclear bag fibres are shown to correspond with 'bag1 fibres' and 'bag2 fibres', respectively (Ovalle & Smith, 1972).
  • (14) In contrast, bilateral lesions of all cerebral ganglion peripheral nerves did not abolish spontaneous egg laying, suggesting that sensory input to the cerebral ganglion is not necessary for activating the bag cells.
  • (15) But volcanic liberation has never really been his bag.
  • (16) "I suddenly became aware of my own colour and the way I was looked at, carrying a bag on a train.
  • (17) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
  • (18) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
  • (19) In addition, the bag does not abrade or desiccate the bowel, potentially reducing serosal injury and adhesion formation.
  • (20) Burst augmentation of R15 induced by bag-cell afterdischarge did not cause detectable changes in the phosphorylation of the major proteins we examined.

Pouch


Definition:

  • (n.) A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
  • (n.) That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
  • (n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
  • (n.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
  • (n.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • (n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
  • (v. t.) To put or take into a pouch.
  • (v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
  • (v. t.) To pout.
  • (v. t.) To pocket; to put up with.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
  • (2) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
  • (3) In group III, multiple confluent ulcers were produced in the cheek pouch on one side, with a single ulcer in the contralateral cheek pouch; no drug was applied, and the tissues were prepared for histology.
  • (4) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
  • (5) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
  • (6) Cheek pouches were removed from BIO 87.20 male hamsters 4 weeks, 8 months or 18 months of age.
  • (7) Acid and pepsin output from the denervated pouch in response to pentagastrin and food decreased significantly (P less than 0.001) after parenteral feeding and returned to control levels after the dogs resumed a normal diet.
  • (8) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
  • (9) A series of 60 children whose urine was stored in pouches formed in whole or in part from bowel were reviewed to establish the effect on growth in height and weight.
  • (10) Injection of ovalbumin into subcutaneous air pouches prepared on the backs of rats previously sensitised to the antigen resulted in the induction of a small and transient accumulation of inflammatory fluid with a predominantly polymorph cell infiltrate.
  • (11) sp., from Chalcophaps i. indica, has three or four testes, and a cirrus pouch 93 to 108 mum long, 28 to 45 mum wide, and its egg capsules are 10 to 12 mum long, seven to nine mum wide, each containing four to six eggs.
  • (12) Theoretically, the low-pressure system afforded by the Kock pouch may be superior in long-term safety to that provided by reservoirs made from other bowel segments.
  • (13) Osteo-inductive activity of each protein fraction was determined by implantation in the quadriceps muscle pouch of mice.
  • (14) A study of 78 cases of gastrectomy in which two reconstruction procedures Roux-en-Y + pouch and interposition + pouch were compared and which is still in progress, yielded the following results: 1.
  • (15) Two of three noninoculated pouch mates acquired infections during the study based on examinations of feces and tissue sections of all eight opossums.
  • (16) In conclusion, functional results were satisfactory and quality of life was excellent after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis; neither deteriorated as patients aged over an 8-year period after operation.
  • (17) We present a computer-aided videodensitometric method for the determination of oxygen saturation in red blood cells flowing through capillaries of the hamster cheek pouch retractor muscle.
  • (18) The pouch was then removed and ex vivo measurements were repeated.
  • (19) As part of our investigation of the behaviour of suture materials, 3-0 sutures of polydioxanone and Maxon were enclosed in nylon pouches, a technique developed for in vivo experiments to prevent cellular interaction with implanted devices.
  • (20) Subcutaneous injection of sterile air in rodents results in the formation of an air pouch with a lining morphologically similar to synovium (Edwards et al., 1981).

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