(n.) A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) When observed, pathological lesions consisted of air sacculitis, fibrinopurulent polyserositis and ventriculitis.
(3) In the Golgi apparatus of spermatids, the cis-element, 4 or 5 underlying saccules, as well as one or two thick trans Golgi elements were G6Pase reactive.
(4) 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.
(5) Ganglion cells innervating the posterior canal were located in the caudal part of the inferior ganglion, while those cells innervating the saccule were located in the rostral part of the inferior ganglion, scattered in the superior ganglion, and concentrated at the junction (isthmus) between the two.
(6) While no clear pattern in the association of strong NADPase activity with lysosomes was apparent relative to the ultrastructural distribution of NADPase activity in Golgi saccules or elements of the trans Golgi network, the results of this investigation suggested that cells having NADPase localized predominantly toward the trans aspect of the Golgi apparatus (in trans Golgi saccules or elements of the trans Golgi network or both) have few NADPase-positive lysosomes.
(7) In 6% the laryngeal saccules were pathologically enlarged as interne laryngoceles, in all cases in males.
(8) Separate extracellular injections were made of the anterior branch, the posterior branch, the ampullary nerve of each of the three semicircular canals, and the branch to the saccule.
(9) RER and Golgi saccules were inconspicuous in these cells and this might indicate decreased production of PRL.
(10) Our patient had anomalous configuration of lateral semicircular canal and an abnormally high location of the utricle and saccule.
(11) Although microinjected Golgi fragments were able to effect the formation of stacked saccules in vinblastine-treated oocytes, negligible transfer of heterologous material to the oocyte surface could be detected by radioautography.
(12) The opposition line does not divide each macula simply down its midline; instead, the line divides the regions with thich bundles into nearly equal opposing areas, except for a remarkably abrupt large loop in the line in the anterior part of the saccule.
(13) Labeling with a polyclonal antibody to amylase was found in the Golgi saccules, immature and mature secretory granules, but not in the trans Golgi network.
(14) These last elements consisted of prosecretory granules attached to flattened, empty-looking saccules showing buds at their surface; detached, more-or-less fenestrated, flattened saccules; and shrivelled residual trans-tubular networks.
(15) Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of acoustic responses from the saccule in guinea pigs for stimulus intensities above 75 dB SPL.
(16) The results indicate that SER-derived vesicles, containing fat droplets, migrate from the apical cytoplasm of the absorptive cell and fuse with saccules or vacuoles of the Golgi complex.
(17) Histological examination of the temporal bones showed separation of otoconia from the otolithic membrane of the saccule and bleeding in the saccule in both conditions.
(18) Sacculations of the SR extend over the A-I junctions of the myofibrils, where they make specialized contacts (diads) with the TTS.
(19) In cultured immature MK from normal progenitors, both peptide components of GPIIb-IIIa appeared in the Golgi saccules and vesicles, and in the small precursors of alpha-granules, labeling both their membranes and their matrix.
(20) After 15 min, CF particles were seen in many small vesicles near the Golgi apparatus, but not in the Golgi saccules.
Satchel
Definition:
(n.) A little sack or bag for carrying papers, books, or small articles of wearing apparel; a hand bag.
Example Sentences:
(1) A: Julie Dean of the Cambrige Satchel Co: "We're introducing allotments...?"
(2) Now a human rights lawyer, Ronan was originally named Satchel after baseball player Satchel Paige, who his presumed father was a fan of.
(3) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
(4) After school last week, a gaggle of African children heading home with their satchels waved at the elderly Italian men lined up on chairs for a gossip outside the barber shop.
(5) Today it's a more Timbuk2 satchel and North Face fleece aesthetic (although that's partly a function of the 90F (32C) heat of DC in August and the mid-50s (12C) autumnal weather of October).
(6) Co-owner and Founder, The Cambridge Satchel Company.
(7) You’ll pay more than you would at Old Delhi’s bazaars, but you’ll still get a bargain: Rajasthani leather satchels go for the equivalent of £12, hallmarked silver bracelets start at £14, cashmere shawls are £8, hand-embroidered silk purses £3 and hand-woven wool carpets start at only £8.
(8) With Ronan as his new name – until recently, he was known as Satchel Farrow – and now with possible new paternity, he seems willfully made up.
(9) Gove attended one writers’ round-table meeting a week, where all he did was badger the producers to book the former BBC newsreader Jan Leeming , upon whom he was oddly fixated, before leaving with all the office washroom’s toilet rolls secreted in his satchel.
(10) I set off cycling up the East River bike path, but soon realise Freitas’s cake won’t survive the journey in my satchel.
(11) The walk was fine in spring or summer; Sara quite liked it, swinging her satchel, listening to the unfamiliar sounds of birds and insects.
(12) Jeannie Satchell, their trainer, is encouraging people to think through where they want to be in five years' time.
(13) Mia Farrow suggested in a Vanity Fair interview that Ronan, 25, may not have been the son of her then husband Woody Allen ; Ronan, formerly known as Satchel, is also estranged from Allen.
(14) "I arrived in adulthood with a satchel of goods and one of the things in my satchel was [the feeling] that I'm not quite enough.
(15) They have replaced briefcases, overtaken the messenger bag in the affection of cyclists (better for a laptop), subsumed the satchel fad.
(16) Satchell is brimming with enthusiasm about where self-employment can take them.
(17) But no code of cross-party working will deal with the deeper problem revealed by Messrs Gove and Laws slinging their satchels at each other.
(18) Both were given the award for entrepreneurship, as were Julie Deane, who founded the Cambridge Satchel Company, and Richard Moross, founder of online printer Moo.com.