The gonads, as in other Arthropoda, are hollow saccular organs, the cavity communicating with the efferent ducts.
In the majority of the Decapoda there is a saccular invagination of the integument in the basal segment of the antennular peduncle having on its inner surface "auditory" setae of the type just described.
In these the adult consists of a simple saccularbody containing the reproductive organs and attached by root-like filaments which ramify throughout the body of the host and serve for the absorption of nourishment (fig.
These are smooth, thin-walled, saccular structures, the right one small, the left very large and extending to the hind end of the splanchnocoele.
The larger of the compound saccular glands are also called racemose glands, on account of their having the general form of a cluster, or raceme, similar to that of a bunch of grapes.
How do tubular glands differ in structure from saccular glands?
Both the tubular and the saccular glands may, by branching, form a great number of similar divisions which are connected with one another, and which communicate by a common opening with the place where the secretion is used.
But there are also Polyps, whose stem only originates through saccular inversion of the upper portion of the animal's body; yet this is only distinct in the soft stems.
Through this originates a saccular inversion, as in the mesentery of the peritoneum, and the vesicle separates into three divisions.
This saccular inversion of the skin constitutes the tegumentary lymphatic vessels, whose original function has been to transport the oxygen, combined with the water, to the intestine.
The lung, which was in the commencement a simple saccular inversion of the integument, has now become a self-substantial organ, to which the respiratory vessels have been subordinated.
The anatomical idea of the air-vessels, or of the lung, is a saccular inversion of the skin.
The portal vein arises from the intestinal canal, collects into one trunk, and again ramifies in order to unite with the biliary ducts, which are only a ramified saccular eversion of the intestine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saccular" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
