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Vesicle definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VES'ICLE, n. [. vesicula. See Vesicate.]
1. A little bladder, or a portion of the cuticle separated from the skin and filled with some humor.
2. Any small membranous cavity in animals or vegetables. The lungs consist of vesicles admitting air.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) [syn: vesicle, cyst]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle French vesicule, from Latin vesicula small bladder, blister, from diminutive of vesica Date: 1578 1. a. a membranous and usually fluid-filled pouch (as a cyst, vacuole, or cell) in a plant or animal b. a small abnormal elevation of the outer layer of skin enclosing a watery liquid ; blister c. a pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ 2. a small cavity in a mineral or rock

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 Anat., Zool., & Bot. a small bladder, bubble, or hollow structure. 2 Geol. a small cavity in volcanic rock produced by gas bubbles. 3 Med. a blister. Derivatives: vesicular adj. vesiculate adj. vesiculation n. Etymology: F vésicule or L vesicula dimin. of VESICA

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vesicle Ves"i*cle, n. [L. vesicula, dim. of vesica a bladder, blister; akin to Skr. vasti bladder: cf. F. v['e]sicule.] A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. Specifically: (a) (Bot.) A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf. (b) (Med.) A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid. (c) (Anat.) A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the umbilical vesicle. (d) (Zo["o]l.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral. (e) (Geol.) 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Cell, cyst, utricle, bladder.

Moby Thesaurus

air bubble, balloon, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, blood blister, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, check, chine, cicatrix, clump, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, fault, fever blister, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, gall, globule, gnarl, handle, hemangioma, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, soap bubble, spine, split, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, track, tubercle, tubercule, twist, verruca, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead