- Fluid-filled joint sac - Small fluid sac that reduces friction - Any sac or saclike cavity; especially, one of the synovial
sacs, or small spaces, often lined with synovial membrane, interposed
between tendons and bony prominences.
- Little sac or cyst - A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. - A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or
upon the surface of a leaf. - A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the
cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid. - A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the
umbilical vesicle. - A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell
or a coral. - A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of
the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic
rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the
molten mass.
- A small case - Pod - Small case - Soluble case of medicine - Soluble pill - a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or
carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the
poppy, the flax, the lily, etc. - A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of
ores, etc.; a scorifier.
- A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid,
found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with
the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval
tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the
Vocabulary.