Sentences with phrase «sacs called»

Anywhere from a few to a few hundred eggs begin to mature inside sacs called follicles.

It's thought that when the muscles in the colon spasm, small sacs called diverticula begin to form on the wall of the intestine.

Americans James E. Rothman and Randy W. Schekman, and Germany's Thomas C. Sudhof, discovered the principles that determine how molecules produced by cells are transported in small sacs called vesicles, which deliver them «to the right place at the right time,» according to the Nobel Committee decision.

Also, with some nanoparticles much of the material ends up trapped in protective sacs called endosomes inside the cell, and there can be potential toxic side effects.

The mimic octopus, cuttlefish, and chameleon use pigment sacs called chromatophores to rapidly change their skins according to their environment.

At the end of each ductule is a cluster of small, grapelike sacs called alveoli.

Unlike reptiles, birds and mammals, unborn or unhatched amphibians do not develop in a special protective sac called an amniotic sac.

When a «healthy» woman has her period, her ovaries produce an egg in a tiny fluid - filled sac called a «follicle».

Before this separation, the three are joined together in a sac called cloaca.

At the junction of the small intestine and the large intestine is a large blind sac called the cecum.

Not exact matches

Former SAC executive Gabe Plotkin's Melvin Capital took a new position in streaming video service Netflix (nflx), buying 950,000 shares and a call option for 1.45 million shares, according to regulatory filings on Monday.

A few investors have called to SAC asking to put money into its funds, according to two people familiar with the situation.

«In my heart, I thought he left too soon,» umpire Tim McClelland said after calling the Yankees» Nick Swisher out for leaving the bag early on a sac fly.

The Sac - Joaquin Section represents itself, extending as far west as Benicia and Vallejo with a large number of member schools calling the Sacramento - metro area home.

I mean, the BAN Breastfeeding NOW page calls breasts «sin sacs» and «sexy sacs,» has dubbed breastmilk «mummymuck,» and refers to breastfeeding as «mouth raping.»

For nine months your baby grows inside your womb and is safely cradled in a perfect pod called the Amniotic Sac.

that happened to me... It is called a blited ovum Its when you you get the hormones and the sac but no baby..

When the baby sucks its mother's breast, a hormone called oxytocin compels the milk to flow from the alveoli, through the ducts (milk canals) into the sacs (milk pools) behind the areola and then into the baby's mouth

The air sacs of the lungs, called alveoli, will be developed by the end of this week and will begin to secrete a substance called surfactant that keeps the lung tissue from sticking together.

The numerous milk production sacs are called alveoli, and they produce the milk that travels through the mammary ducts before being released in the nipple.

This wide, sac - like area is called an ampulla.

Surfactant is a naturally occurring chemical needed to inflate the tiny air sacs (called alveoli) in baby's lungs when he or she is ready to breathe.

This early, your baby is still just a mass of cells called embryoy An amniotic sac is just starting around this mass of cellsl It is not bigger than a small pinhead which will rapidly see growth in the next 38 - 42 weeks where it becomes a full babyb

Some other signs are having one breast significantly larger than the other, breasts that don't grow either during puberty or pregnancy, or a breast that resembles an empty sac, called a tubular breast shape.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who called SAC «a veritable magnet for market cheaters,» said the hedge fund reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits through separate insider - trading schemes by at least eight former SAC fund managers and analysts.

Each is housed within a sac of cells called a follicle.

Within two huge sacs (called hydatid cysts) that occupied two - thirds of his liver, Kazaryan harbored hundreds, if not thousands, of budding tapeworm larvae.

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.

Air sacs may also have enabled creatures to make long, repeated calls without hyperventilating.

They depleted their reserves of these chemicals rapidly each time a new auditory signal came in, and they decreased the amount of space within the cells that housed sac - like structures called vesicles — biological storage tanks where neurotransmitter chemicals are kept.

When Toxoplasma infects a mammalian cell, it uses part of the cell's membrane to wrap itself in a little sac, called a vacuole.

Male vocal sacs inflate dramatically when producing an advertisement call.

As part of its call for greater transparency, the committee said that departmental SACs must also «aim to hold the majority of their meetings in public.»

They also ignored RoboRana when the throat sac remained inflated or deflated while a call was broadcast.

But when the team paired calls with throat sac movements like those made by calling frogs, the frogs put their best wrestling moves on the mechanical frog (see movie here).

«Results also identified mechanisms regulating the numbers and phenotype of macrophages in the tiny air sacs of the lungs (called alveoli) in health and disease,» said Takuji Suzuki, MD, PhD, the study's first author and a scientist in the Division of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology at Cincinnati Children's.

The bat family, also called sac - winged bats, have bag - shaped glands in each wing that are open to the air.

With their discovery of the opening, the divers had proved that the two caves were really one, now called simply Sac Actun.

His actuators are made from soft polymer materials called elastomers, and his first prototype, a six - fingered gripper, resembles a starfish: when air is pumped into it through a thin tube, air sacs within expand, causing its digits to contract in a gentle grasping motion.

Hunting bats don't just listen out for male frogs» mating calls: they can also use echolocation to detect when the frogs inflate their throat sacs

Ripples in the water made by throat sac expansion in calling túngara frogs signal their presence both to rivals and to predatory bats.

The blue - ringed octopus's brawny approach is unique — all other cephalopods use sacs of pigment, called chromatophores, to change their colors.

The researchers found that male frogs that have found suitable spots for spawning in sections of the reed bamboo will call out for female mates using the vocal sacs in their throats.

At least one species of bat is known to use echolocation to pick up on the ripples created in the pond by the male frogs inflating and deflating their vocal sacs while calling.

When a male frigate bird wants to get a date, it throngs with other males, inflates the patch of red skin on its throat (called the gular sac) and then waggles it from side to side while calling whenever a likely female flies by.

To him they resemble spore sacs formed by modern single - celled organisms called mesomycetozoeans, which sit between animals and fungi on the tree of life.

A male frog will get a female's attention by first calling out and puffing up his vocal sacs.

When the bees were familiar with the flowers (after a few visits), five bees per plant species were observed visiting a flower with the anthers (here called pollen - sacs) marked with white UV - active luminous pigment (GP280443, Boesner, Witten, Germany).

But when these invaders pass through to one or both lungs (often after you've had a cold or the flu), or if your immune system is too weak to defend against an infectious assault, tiny air sacs in your lungs, called alveoli, become inflamed and fill with fluid or pus.

People who have multiple sacs (or pouches) in their colon have diverticulosis; when these sacs become inflamed or infected, the condition is called diverticulitis.