Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small enclosed structure or cavity, especially.
- noun Cytology A membrane-bound structure within a cell in which materials such as enzymes are transported or stored.
- noun Anatomy A sac or cyst, especially one containing fluid.
- noun Medicine A blister of the skin.
- noun Geology A cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any small bladder-like structure, cavity, cell, or the like, in a body; a membranous or vesicular vessel or cavity; a little sac or cyst. Also
vesicule . - noun A minute hollow sphere or bubble of water or other liquid.
- noun In petrography, a cavity in lava formed by the expansion of escaping gasbubbles, chiefly of steam.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
- noun (Bot.) A small bladderlike body in the substance of a vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf.
- noun (Med.) A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.
- noun (Anat.) A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cytology A
membrane -bound compartment found in acell . - noun A small bladder-like cell or cavity.
- noun anatomy A small
sac orcyst orvacuole , especially one containing fluid. Ablister formed in or beneath the skin, containingserum . Ableb . - noun anatomy A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
- noun geology A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Inside-outside transitions of phospholipids in vesicle membranes.
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All of the molecules in a given vesicle are identical; that is, a vesicle will contain only norepinephrine molecules or only GABA molecules.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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All of the molecules in a given vesicle are identical; that is, a vesicle will contain only norepinephrine molecules or only GABA molecules.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991
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The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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In this work he demonstrated first, that the Graafian follicles in the ovary are not the actual eggs, but that they contain the spherical vesicle, which is the true ovum, a body about the one hundred and twentieth of an inch in diameter, wherein lie the properties transmitting the physical and mental characteristics of the parent or grandparent, or even of more remote ancestors.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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-- The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that finally at the period of puberty they ripen and liberate an ovum or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity of the
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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-- The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that finally at the period of puberty they ripen and liberate an ovum or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity of the Fallopian tubes.
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The punctured part on a boys arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
III. A Continuation of Facts and Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1800 1909
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There is a common uro-genital duct, into which a seminal vesicle, which is especially large in early spring, opens.
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The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that, finally, at the pubescent period, they ripen and liberate an ovum, or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity through the Fallopian tubes.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
jwjarvis commented on the word vesicle
can be visualised as a bubble of liquid within another liquid. lysosome, vacuole
November 14, 2010