Sentences with phrase «sac contains»

Usually the hernia sac contains nothing but fat.

The amniotic sac contains a fluid that fills the amnion to protect the embryo from desiccation and shock.

This protein - lined sac containing the sequestered virus pinches off to move deeper into the cytoplasm of the cell where the virus enters to replicate.

Instead they have found sacs containing granules of pure iron in the trophocytes of the bees» abdomens; these cells nourish the reproductive organs of the bee.

These sacs contain modified sweat glands that produce foul - smelling, brownish secretions that are eliminated during defecation, most likely to mark your dog's territory.

[1] It includes a sac containing 26 marble eggs and its abdomen and thorax are made of ribbed bronze.

The largest in a series of spectacular sculptures created during the second half of the decade, balances perilously above the ground on eight spindly legs, shielding a mesh sac containing ten marble eggs below her abdomen.

Not exact matches

Each breast has several lobes that contain small sacs connected by thin tubes.

The American Pregnancy Association cites the guideline that if the gestational sac is larger than 16 - 18 millimeters and contains no fetal pole or if the fetal pole is larger than 5 millimeters and has no heartbeat, miscarriage has occurred.

The amniotic sac holds the baby inside a self - contained environment.

They also claimed it contained other internal organ structures, such as gill sacs, that identified it as a vertebrate, and that the animal's teeth resembled those of lamprey.

Another staining technique called comparative genome hybridisation (CGH), which labels all chromosomes, has previously been used to analyse abnormalities in the polar body — a chromosome - containing sac expelled from the egg shortly after fertilisation.

«The heart is just a pump,» says William Federspiel of the University of Pittsburgh, whereas the lungs contain a complex network of branching air sacs permitting gases to diffuse in and out of the blood.

The mature ovule in most flowering plants, including Arabidopsis thaliana, contains a seven - celled embryo sac consisting of two synergid cells, one egg cell, one central cell and three antipodal cells.

The researchers knew they could carry out a relatively straightforward isolation of the FcRY receptor by passing a solution of yolk sacs through a separation column containing IgY under acid conditions — causing the receptor to stick to the IgY.

A pancreatic pseudocyst is a fluid - filled sac in the abdomen, which may also contain tissue from the pancreas, pancreatic enzymes, and blood.

FSH stimulates the growth of ovarian follicles, the fluid - filled sacs that contain your eggs.

Intestinal zinc transfer by everted gut sacs from rats given diets containing different amounts and types of dietary fibre

Technically, what we see and describe as «glands» are actually anal sacs, which contain the glands that secrete an oily, strong - smelling substance.

These glands (also called sacs) contain a smelly, oily fluid that smells a lot like skunk.

The statocysts contains a tiny grain of calcium nested in a fluid - filled sac lined by hairs — not dissimilar to a human cochlea.

On either side of a dog's anus is a small anal sac, which contains chemicals and glands that dogs detect.

Chameleons change their colors using chromatophores, a specialized type of cell that contains tiny sacs of pigments; when a chameleon shifts color, they do so by expanding or contracting these sacs to change the color of the cells.

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