Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as sacculate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Furnished with little sacs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Furnished with or formed of a sac or several sacs.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective formed with or having saclike expansions

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Examples

  • To digest this diet, they have developed highly complex sacculated stomachs with specialized bacteria.

    Sunda Shelf mangroves 2008

  • Like other colobines, they have developed highly complex sacculated stomachs with specialized bacteria to digest this diet.

    Borneo peat swamp forests 2008

  • As examples of the former may be mentioned that in which the organ is deficient in front, and has become everted and protruded like a fungous mass through an opening at the median line of the hypogastrium; that in which the rectum terminates in the bladder posteriorly; and that in which the foetal urachus remains pervious as a uniform canal, or assumes a sacculated shape between the summit of the bladder and the umbilicus.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The walls of the bladder are thickened, fasciculated, and sacculated; the two former appearances being caused by a hypertrophy of the vesical fibres, while the latter is in general owing to a protrusion of the mucous membrane between the fasciculi.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • -- The urethra being strictured, the bladder has become sacculated.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The walls of the bladder are thickened and sacculated.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • -- The bladder, 6, appears symmetrically sacculated.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The walls of the bladder have hence become fasciculated and sacculated.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The tunica vaginalis, like the serous spermatic tube, may, in consequence of inflammatory fibrinous effusion, become sacculated-multilocular, in which case, if a hydrocele form, the position of the testis will vary accordingly.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • -- The serous spermatic canal closes imperfectly, so as to become sacculated, and thus a hydrocele of the cord is formed.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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