This bag, called a sacculus, is made out of peptidoglycan, a mesh-like structure of carbohydrates (glycans) and amino-acid peptides. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
That layer, called a sacculus, is made out of peptidoglycan, a mesh-like structure of carbohydrates (glycans) and amino-acid peptides. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
Sacella appears to be a hybrid of sacculus with cella, which is derived from the image of a beehive, a lasting metaphor for storing wisdom away like honey. From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
Note 22: "A sacculus would be something rather larger than a purse, and was used sometimes to carry books as well as coins — very precious things, useful for nourishing memories.". From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
"We also saw that the sacculus is just a single layer thick.". From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
Researchers have long been interested in understanding the precise architecture of the sacculus. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
The utriculus and sacculus are in wide-open communication with each other and have almost become one. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference
The cavity of this membranous labyrinth is filled with a fluid, the endolymph; and within the utriculus, sacculus and lagena are masses of inorganic matter called the otoliths. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
It also constitutes the mass of the vermiform appendix and the wall of the sacculus rotundus; and in the young animal the "thymus gland," ventral to the heart, and less entirely, the. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
They account for the imperfect equilibrational ability of the animals by pointing out the structural peculiarities of the sacculus, the vestibular ganglia, and the peripheral nerves. From Wordnik.com. [The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior] Reference
The duodenum and ileum together form the small intestine; and the ileum is dilated at its distal end into a thick-walled sacculus rotundus (s.r.), beyond which point comes the large intestine. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
The ileum is shorter, there is no sacculus rotundus, and the large intestine has no caecum, none of the characteristic sacculations of the rabbit's colon, and does not loop back to the stomach before the rectum section commences. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
It is the sacculus, Jensen notes, that is targeted by the antibiotic penicillin (animal cells do not have cell walls); penicillin blocks a bacterium's ability to remodel its surrounding molecular bag as the bacterium itself grows. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
Examine all this carefully, and make small sketches of points of interest -- the duodenal loop and the pyloric end of the stomach, for instance; the meeting of colon, caecum, and sacculus rotundus again; or the urinary bladder and adjacent parts. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
Sac., the sacculus; c., a small outgrowth of the latter, corresponding to the rabbit's cochlea. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
St. Charles Borromeo describes a sacculus corporalis distinct from the case in which corporals were preserved (Acta. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
A linen bag (porrigitur in ulnas ejus sacculus super planetam; a symbol of the highest function of these clerics, that of carrying, as stated above, the consecrated hosts) he prostrated himself while the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Nothing definite can be adduced from the Fathers in support of this; most of their expressions which seem to favour it may be easily explained by the personification in Luke; e.g. "Didascalia", "Do solo Mammona cogitant, quorum Deus est sacculus"; similarly St. Augustine, "Lucrum Punice Mammon dicitur" (Serm. on. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
The Saccule (sacculus). From Wordnik.com. [X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 4. The Internal Ear or Labyrinth] Reference
Plenus sacculus est aranearum. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
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