amniotic sac

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăm′nē-ŏt′ĭk săk′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): (contemporary) /ˌæm.niːˌɒt.ɪk ˈsæk/, /ˌam.niːˌɒt.ɪk ˈsak/; (conservative) /ˌæm.niːˌɔːt.ɪk ˈsæk/, /ˌam.niːˌɔːt.ɪk ˈsak/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): (without the cot–caught merger) /ˌæm.niˌɔt.ɪk ˈsæk/, (cot–caught merger) /ˌæm.niˌɑt.ɪk ˈsæk/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): (standard) /ˌæm.niˌɒt.ɪk ˈsæk/, (dialectal) /ˌæm.niˌɑt.ɪk ˈsæk/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌæm.niːˌɔt.ɪk ˈsæk/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɛm.niːˌɒt.ək ˈsɛk/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˌam.niˌɔt.ɪk ˈsak/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˌa(ː)m.niːˌɔʈ.ɪk ˈsa(ː)k/
• Hyphenation: am‧ni‧ot‧ic sac

Noun

amniotic sac (plural amniotic sacs)

2. (anatomy) The sac in which the foetus develops in mammals, reptiles, and birds.

   Synonyms: (now chiefly informal) bag of waters, (informal) membranes

   Hypernyms: sac, bag < structure

   Meronym: amniotic fluid

   Near-synonym: amnion (meronymy, holonymy, or embryological sequence seem to vary by who is defining the two)

Related terms

• amniocentesis

Translations

sac in which foetus develops — see also amnion

• Amharic: የኣምኒዮት ኪስ (yäʾamniyot kis)
• Arabic: كِيس سَلْوِيّ (kīs salwiyy), سُخْد (suḵd)
• Armenian: սաղմնային պարկ (saġmnayin park)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: bayuyo

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: sac amniòtic, sac àmnic
• Cebuano: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羊膜囊 (yángmónáng)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: lootekott
• Finnish: sikiöpussi
• French: sac amniotique (fr) m
• German: Fruchtblase (de) f, Fruchtsack m
• Greek: αμνιακός σάκος m (amniakós sákos)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: כיס השפיר m (kis hashafír)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: magzatburok (hu)
• Icelandic: líknarbelgur (is) m
• Ido: amniala sako
• Inuktitut: ᐴᐹᖅ (poopaaq)
• Irish: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: amnios
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: seravok f, yarik (ku) f

• Latin: membrāna fētālis f
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• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: مشیمه (fa) (mašime), یاره (fa) (yâre), آتون (âtun), یارک (fa) (yârak)
• Polish: błona płodowa f, błona jajowa f
• Portuguese: saco amniótico m, bolsa amniótica
• Romanian: sac amniotic m
• Russian: пло́дный пузы́рь m (plódnyj puzýrʹ)
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: водѐња̄к m

  Latin: vodènjāk (sh) m

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: saco amniótico m
• Swedish: fosterhinna
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• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: amniyon kesesi
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• rupture of membranes

Further reading

• “amniotic sac”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.