Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed of or furnished with a set or series of sac-like dilatations; sacculiferous; sacculated: as, a sacculate stomach; a sacculate intestine. See cuts under
leech and intestine.
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- adjective See
sacculated .
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- adjective formed with or having saclike expansions
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Examples
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Oddly enough, among the grass-eaters, for some reason which we do not understand, it appears to occur in a sort of inverse proportion to the stomach; those which have large, sacculate, pouched stomachs, like the cow, sheep, and the ruminants generally, having smaller _cæca_.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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This consists in a bulging forward of the cornea at a given point by the sacculate yielding and distention of its coats, and it may be either transparent or opaque and vascular.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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