(n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1963, when Tony Benn won his fight to renounce his inherited peerage, he was rapidly followed by Quintin Hogg and Alec Douglas-Home, who were prominent in the Lords but understood they needed to face the people to get to the very top, as Douglas-Home went on to do.
(2) Here's Quintin Berry, and if the Tigers can't score here...well... 1.53am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Bottom 5th A little flare by Infante finds a little bit of room out on right field, and that really is all you need.
(3) Quintin Price, a former manager at investment management firm BlackRock, will join the management board to lead Deutsche’s assetmanagement business, while the current head Michele Faissola will leave the bank.
(4) Meanwhile Quintin Mikell is questionable with a foot injury and his return is questionable.
(5) But the director general of the European commission, Odile Quintin, yesterday acknowledged that the EU was divided on the issue, and that the position, for now at least, was that the word "apology" would not be used.
(6) Both Hogg’s parents had leading roles in Sir John Major’s government and her grandfather, Quintin Hogg, was a prominent Tory who almost won the Conservative party leadership following the resignation of Harold Macmillan.
(7) She did not disclose her brother Quintin’s role at Barclays – regulated by the Bank – until 22 February when she filled in a questionnaire from the Treasury select committee before her evidence about her promotion to deputy governor.
(8) Now Quintin Berry will hit for the pitcher, and he chops to Scutaro at second and just gets the out at first, side retired!
(9) 12.28am GMT Giants 0 - Tigers 0, Bottom 1st Quintin Berry is up next and he works a full count off of Cain, fouls a few balls off, gets Cain to throw eight pitches and then lines a ball... *JUST* foul into the corner.
(10) 1.12am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 0, Bottom 3rd Quintin Berry bunts, and Cain and Sandoval nearly collide in trying to field it, and Sandoval gets the ball and manages to just throw out Berry at first.
(11) So we have two runners on and just one out for Quintin Berry.
(12) Emwazi was educated at another school in the area, Quintin Kynaston (QK), where his contemporaries included the singer-songwriter Tulisa.
(13) Her parents had leading roles in Sir John Major’s government and her grandfather, Quintin Hogg, better known as Lord Hailsham, was a prominent Tory who almost won the Conservative party leadership after the resignation of Harold Macmillan in 1963.
(14) Bank of England deputy's slip-up was astonishing – but its reaction was predictable | Nils Pratley Read more Hogg’s troubles began when it emerged that she had not declared a potential conflict of interest , which is that her brother, Quintin Hogg, is a director of group strategy at Barclays, which the Bank of England regulates.
(15) A scion of one of Britain’s most high-profile political families, Hogg had initially told MPs last month that the Bank was aware of Quintin Hogg’s role at the high street lender.
(16) 7.32pm GMT 49ers 6-10 Panthers, :42, 2nd quarter Carolina's Quintin Mikell was injured on the last play, looks like the ankle.
(17) The lengthy beer menu lists 170 brews, including hard-to-find local specialities such as Quintine beers from the witches’ town of Ellezelles (which claims to be birthplace of Hercule Poirot, solely on the basis of a fake birth certificate) and lovely spicy, unfiltered La Chouffe on tap.
(18) 2.56am GMT Giants 3 - Tigers 3, Bottom 8th Pinch-hitting for the Tigers for Quintin Berry is Avisail Garcia.
(19) Then we have trouble, a one-out walk to Quintin Berry, which means the meat is coming up with a man on.
(20) 1.51am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 2, Bottom 5th Quintin Berry hits a grounder that Cain can't get a handle on but, it gets to Crawford who throws to Belt just in time to get the out and end the inning.
Sac
Definition:
(n.) See Sacs.
(n.) The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
(n.) See 2d Sack.
(n.) A cavity, bag, or receptacle, usually containing fluid, and either closed, or opening into another cavity to the exterior; a sack.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(2) Tracheal mucus transport rate (TMTR) and quantitative clearance of aerosolized Escherichia coli from the trachea, lung, and air sac were measured in healthy unanesthetized turkeys and in turkeys exposed by aerosol to a La Sota vaccine strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV).
(3) The wall of the yolk sac thickens as a result of this infolding and the densely packed capillaries.
(4) After intravenous or dorsal lymph sac injections of 3H-22:6, most of the retinal label was seen in rod photoreceptor cells.
(5) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
(6) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
(7) On the other hand, esophageal emptying of solid isotopic meals may show the persistence of food in the diverticular sac long time after the meal.
(8) Both genes are expressed in the fetal liver, gut, and visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and are repressed shortly after birth in the liver and gut.
(9) The in vitro absorption by rat jejunal and ileal gut sacs of soluble antigen-antibody complexes and of antigen alone was compared.
(10) In two almost identical experiments, all OTC treatment groups had significantly lower mean air sac lesion scores than the unmedicated challenged controls.
(11) After clusters of pigmented epithelial cells have rested immobile in the yolk sac of Blennius pholis for 2-4 days (Trinkaus, '88), their constituent cells transform into mesenchymal, dendritic melanocytes.
(12) The patient, a 28-year-old woman, in her ninth week of pregnancy, was operated on for stage Ia, mixed germ cell tumor (grade 3 immature teratoma + yolk sac tumor) of AFP decreased to the normal level.
(13) Using the experimental model of the everted sac prepared from rat jejuna, kinetic studies on [14C]oleic acid uptake from bile salt micelles were conducted in the presence and absence of phosphatidylcholine.
(14) Cadmium, anti-visceral yolk sac antibody (AVYS) and trypan blue all inhibited pinocytosis in a concentration-dependent fashion when added to the culture medium, although at low concentrations trypan blue was slightly stimulatory.
(15) In each rabbit, a single fetal sac was opened, the umbilical vessels were cannulated and the placenta was perfused in situ with buffered Krebs solution containing Dextran.
(16) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
(17) A stem cell line has been obtained with cell culture, having a germ cell character and a yolk sac configuration.
(18) We postulate that the apposition of trophotaenial epithelium to the internal ovarian epithelium constitutes a placental association equivalent to a noninvasive, epithelioform of an inverted yolk sac placenta.
(19) In vivo recirculating perfusion (n = 5) and in vitro everted sac incubation (n = 8) were employed.
(20) In the second hypertrophied form [Type II], the endoplasmic reticulum is very prominent and occurs as a series of grossly dilated sacs of irregular shape.