Usually means: Embryonic membrane, nourishes developing embryo.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word yolk sac:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. yolk sac: Merriam-Webster
  2. yolk sac: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yolk sac: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yolk sac: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yolk sac: Vocabulary.com
  6. yolk-sac: Wordnik
  7. Yolk sac: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. yolk sac: Wiktionary
  9. yolk sac: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. yolk sac: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. yolk sac: Dictionary.com
  12. Yolk-sac, Yolk sac: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. yolk sac: Rhymezone
  14. yolk sac: FreeDictionary.org
  15. yolk sac: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. yolk sac: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yolk-sac, yolk sac: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. yolk sac: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sac, yolk, Yolk sac: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Yolk-sac: Anatomy of the Human Body
  7. Yolk-sac: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Yolk-sac, yolk sac: Medical dictionary
  10. Sac, yolk, Yolk sac: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yolk sac)

noun:  (anatomy) A membranous sac attached to an embryo, providing early nourishment in the form of yolk in bony fishes, sharks, reptiles, birds, and primitive mammals.

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