Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
sac or some aspect of one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a pouch
Etymologies
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Examples
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My medical dictionary describes the stomach as a distensible saclike organ connecting the esophagus and the duodenum (throat and small intestine).
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The eggs hatch into a ciliated miracidium which actively seeks out the first host, a gastropod, penetrating its skin and metamorphosing into a saclike sporocyst.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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A stretchable saclike structure in the body that holds fluids.
bladder 2002
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(SIST) An abnormal saclike structure that develops in the body and is filled with fluid or semisolid material.
cyst 2002
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A saclike structure that stores urine until it can be passed out of the body through the urethra.
urinary bladder 2002
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A small saclike organ located at the upper end of the large intestine.
appendix 2002
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This tiny pear-shaped, saclike organ receives bile, a yellowish green fluid that the liver produces to help digest and absorb fats.
DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK Sanjiv Chopra 2001
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The repulsive, malformed heads were all pop eyes and gaping mouths, the latter limned with greasy, saclike lips.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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The repulsive, malformed heads were all pop eyes and gaping mouths, the latter limned with greasy, saclike lips.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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Formed with or having saclike expansions. scirrhus
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
chained_bear commented on the word saclike
See the WeirdNet definition on lung.
July 30, 2008
bestiary commented on the word saclike
better that than "either of two lunglike organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to do things that lungs do. see lung." —i think.
July 30, 2008