Sentence examples for fluid sac from inspiring English sources

In a lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal tap, cerebrospinal fluid is obtained by inserting a needle through the skin in the small of the back (below the termination of the spinal cord) so that it passes between the vertebrae into the fluid sac surrounding the spinal cord and nerve roots.

Instead, they noticed that with the fluid sac deflated, 17-centimeter-long snailfish looked more like tadpoles than fish, a body type that's not very efficient in water.

Baker's cysts are caused by fluid distention of the gastrocnemio-semimembranosus bursa and result in a painful synovial-lined fluid sac outside the knee joint.

In professional secretory cells, the ER forms stacks of membrane cisternae (fluid sacs), apparently because this is an efficient way to pack a lot of ER membrane into a small volume inside the cell.

Anterior sacral meningoceles are an uncommon congenital abnormality consisting of a spinal fluid filled sac in the pelvis communicating with the subarachnoid space.

Typically, ∼10 amniocytes were obtained in 100 μl of amniotic fluid per sac (∼0.75 1.0 ml per pooled collection from a single litter).

In all cases each embryo is encased in an amnion, a membranous fluid-filled sac.

The tissue sheet, which becomes a tough, fluid-filled sac called the amniotic membrane, is made up of an outer chorion layer and an inner amnion layer.

The pathophysiology of the condition involves inflammatory processes of the radial humeral bursa (fluid-filled sac) and nearby ligaments.

Although most lumps that women find in their breasts are not cancerous — they are usually fibro-cystic masses or cysts (fluid filled sacs) — all lumps found in or around the breast need further evaluation by a health care professional.

Drying out or mechanical injury of embryos of reptiles, birds, and mammals is prevented by still another membrane, the amnion, which is a fluid-filled sac immediately surrounding the embryo.