The meaning of Sac

noun

A small saclike cavity in a gland, surrounded by secretory cells.

Usage examples:

The mass also contained cystic spaces lined by columnar epithelium, sebaceous glands, cartilage, sm…

noun

A flexible container with an opening at the top, used for carrying things.

Usage examples:

He arrived at the children's ward carrying a bag full of toys for the young patients

verb

Put (something) in a bag.

Usage examples:

Customers bagged their own groceries

noun

A muscular membranous sac in the abdomen which receives urine from the kidneys and stores it for excretion.

Usage examples:

Patients were asked to empty their bladders before going to bed

noun

A small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning, or other damage.

Usage examples:

His heels were covered in blisters

verb

Form blisters on the skin or other surface.

Usage examples:

The surface of the door began to blister

noun

A fluid-filled sac or saclike cavity, especially one countering friction at a joint.

Usage examples:

Another slip may attach to the synovial bursa forming a tensor bursae mucosae tendinum.

proper noun

A city in north-western turkey, capital of a province of the same name; population 1,431,200 (est. 2007). it was the capital of the ottoman empire from 1326–1402.

noun

A minute spherical sac of phospholipid molecules enclosing a water droplet, especially as formed artificially to carry drugs or other substances into the tissues.

Usage examples:

Their approach is to use carrier molecules called liposomes, which are small, spherical fatty membr…

noun

An extremely small sac (= bag) made artificially from a type of lipid to carry a drug, vaccine, or other substance to particular cells in the body

noun

A small flexible bag, typically carried in a pocket or attached to a belt.

Usage examples:

A tobacco pouch

verb

Put into a pouch.

Usage examples:

He stopped, pouched his tickets, and plodded on

noun

A bag or soft container

Usage examples:

The raincoat is folded inside a small waterproof pouch.

noun

The loose sheath enclosing the spinal cord.

Usage examples:

The vertebral foramen houses the theca and spinal nerves.

noun

The bladder (= the organ where urine is stored in the body) or the gallbladder (= the organ connected the liver that stores bile)

noun

A small fluid-filled bladder, sac, cyst, or vacuole within the body.

Usage examples:

They are united by the presence of small vesicles in, or just under, the plasma membrane.

noun

A small structure like a bag in a human, animal, or plant