(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.
Sai
Definition:
(n.) See Capuchin, 3 (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) The results suggest that the sai-1 mutation affects reaction(s) either not associated with methionine biosynthesis, or methionine synthesis and at least one other critical cellular function.
(2) Therefore, the protective action of Sai A against peroxidative damage to isolated rat hepatocytes and their plasma membranes was evaluated further.
(3) This article describes the transformation of reported alcohol consumption into a quantitative variable, Standardized Alcohol Intake (SAI), which is used to investigate various sociodemographic and psychosocial factors as correlates of alcohol use in a total community sample (N = 1672), in Tecumseh, Michigan.
(4) He sais: This is the key proposal and it eschews the learning from all other governance models outside those of the Plc.
(5) We conclude that hair and SAI afferents contribute to different components of sympathetically evoked activity in WDR neurons and that both types of afferents are likely to be involved in sympathetically maintained pain in humans.
(6) Reductions were sustained at both follow-up assessments and were complemented by significant reductions on standardized self-reported measures of anxiety (Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory, SAI), depression (Beck Depression Inventory, BDI), and psychiatric symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory, BSI) as well as by clinical ratings of depression (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, HDRS).
(7) These predictors included orthopaedic evaluations of severity and prognosis, the number of nonorganic physical signs, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scales 1 and 3, age, education, proficiency in English, and the accuracy of patients' understanding of the bases for their medical condition as determined by the Schema Assessment Instrument (SAI).
(8) Adhesion of Sarcoma I cells (SaI) to untreated or to serum-treated glass was examined by layering (51)Cr-labeled cells on the substrate for 20 min at 34 degrees C and determining the glass-bound radioactivity after the monolayers were rinsed.
(9) However, in view of the SAI capacity for responding to vibration with temporally precise, patterned activity, it appears that their reported failure to contribute to vibrotactile sensibility must be attributed to limitations imposed in the central processing of SAI signals.
(10) Eighteen SAI fibres from femoral cutaneous nerve branches were examined; each was associated with one to three touch domes.
(11) In contrast to this is the cross-reactivity of effector cells in this system, whereby animals rendered immune to either the S1509a or SAI sarcoma are equally capable of rejecting a challenge of the opposite tumor.
(12) With seven of the nine rapidly adapting (type RA or FAI) cutaneous afferents (88%) microstimulation evoked sensations of 'flutter-vibration', and with two of eight slowly adapting (type SAI) afferents (25%) it evoked sensations of 'sustained pressure'.
(13) Deposits of PHA-L in the stratum griseum superficiale (SGS) resulted in labelled terminal swellings in the stratum opticum and all of the deep laminae (the stratum griseum intermediate [SGI], stratum albumin intermedium [SAI], stratum griseum profundum [SGP], and stratum albumin profundum [SAP]).
(14) Algorithms were developed to determine a new index of corneal symmetry, the Surface Asymmetry Index (SAI).
(15) Three types of mechanoreceptive afferents (RA, SAI, SAII) and many deep units of unknown origin were found.
(16) To evaluate the role of systemic autonomic tone in the hemodynamic response to beta-inhibitors, the hemodynamic effects of long-term timolol therapy were studied in hypertensive patients under two sets of conditions: at rest and after pharmacologic systemic autonomic inhibition (SAI).
(17) The majority of labelled cells in the contralateral SC were located within the stratum album intermediale (SAI), between the fasciles oriented caudorostrally in that layer.
(18) Thus, dynamic tests (CRH or insulin tests) are indicated if SAI is suspected.
(19) Three afferent categories were studied in the diabetic subjects (rapidly adapting type RA and slowly adapting SAI and SAII) in response to mechanical skin stimulation and abnormal responsiveness was encountered in all categories.
(20) Restriction enzymes BamH1, PstI, and SaI did not cleave phage A25 DNA.