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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sac +‎ -like

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Examples

  • My medical dictionary describes the stomach as a distensible saclike organ connecting the esophagus and the duodenum (throat and small intestine).

    The Stomach: A Very Complex Organ 2007

  • 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

  • A stretchable saclike structure in the body that holds fluids.

    bladder 2002

  • (SIST) An abnormal saclike structure that develops in the body and is filled with fluid or semisolid material.

    cyst 2002

  • A saclike structure that stores urine until it can be passed out of the body through the urethra.

    urinary bladder 2002

  • A small saclike organ located at the upper end of the large intestine.

    appendix 2002

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Formed with or having saclike expansions. scirrhus

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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  • See the WeirdNet definition on lung.

    July 30, 2008

  • 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