Medical Term:
saccule
Pronunciation: sak′yūl
Definition:
- The smaller of the two membranous sacs in the vestibule of the labyrinth, lying in the spheric recess; it is connected with the cochlear duct by a very short tube, the ductus reuniens, and with the utriculus by the beginning of the endolymphatic sac and the utriculosaccularis duct that joins it.
- The immense bag-shaped structure formed by peptidoglycans as part of the cell wall of certain microorganisms.
Synonym(s): sacculusTA, sacculus proprius, sacculus vestibuli
[L. sacculus]
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