What's the difference between sac and saccular?

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.

Saccular


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a sac; sacciform.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An atheroma is often associated with saccular aneurysms, but its effect on this pathological process is still unknown.
  • (2) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
  • (3) The auditory function of the sacculus in amphibians is confirmed and special attention is paid to functional heterogeneity of the receptor epithelium in the saccular maculae.
  • (4) The dipeptides carnosine and homocarnosine have been chromatographically resolved by expanded HPLC and found to be present in saccular nerve in a ratio of approximately 10:1, respectively.
  • (5) Those included 9 cases of saccular aneurysm and 5 cases of fusiform aneurysm (Table 1).
  • (6) Such prosecretory granules, large and irregular in shape, "peeled off" from the stacks of saccules with residual saccular or tubular structures still attached to them, some of the latter forming trans-tubular networks.
  • (7) Carotid angiography demonstrated that the left internal carotid artery was tortuous toward the medial side in the C2 portion, and the saccular aneurysm was present in the anterior temporal artery 3 mm distal from the middle cerebral artery.
  • (8) The saccular orientations are significantly different from those in tetrapods.
  • (9) An in vitro preparation of the saccular nerve, maintained in parallel, served to indicate the potential neural contribution to overall release from the macula.
  • (10) A case was reported of surgically treated saccular aneurysm located at the right posterior temporoparietooccipital artery junction (P3 portion of PCA).
  • (11) The origins of the thin-layer fractions, with respect to sensory and neural elements in the saccular macula samples, are discussed.
  • (12) Although all animals had morphologic evidence of HMD, saccular aeration was more uniform and airway dilatation less evident in HFOV rescue (P less than 0.0001).
  • (13) Immunological staining was found in the secretory granules, some tubular or saccular structures, parts of the rough endoplasmic reticulum, and the cytoplasmic matrix.
  • (14) Saccular aneurysms without relation to any arterial branch are rare.
  • (15) A 19-day-old neonate presented with a massive intracranial hemorrhage which was found at autopsy to be due to a ruptured intracranial saccular aneurysm.
  • (16) An investigation of the time of appearance of vasospasm as seen angiographically after the onset of subarachnoid hemorrhage was carried out on 797 cases of intracranial saccular aneurysm in which operations were performed.
  • (17) The preputial glands are composed of branched saccular glands.
  • (18) The specimens revealed: absence of normal bile ducts; presence of thin-walled tubular or saccular cholangiectases with semicircular and annular fibrous crests, without evidence of superinfection; cholangiectases with secondary acute or chronic-cellular cholangitis, with or without cholangitic abscesses; fibrous cholangitis without ductal dilatation; transformation of bile ducts into fibrous cords which were either solid or contained remnants of bile duct epithelium, and complete loss of bile ducts.
  • (19) This is a report of 54 cases of saccular aneurysms operated upon intracranially with a total operative mortality of 7.4%, poor results in four cases (7.4%) and excellent results in 46 cases (85.1%).
  • (20) However, in these ears the saccular lumens were not obliterated and endolymphatic hydrops did not develop.

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