Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to vesicles.
- adjective Composed of or containing vesicles.
- adjective Having the form of a vesicle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In anatomy and zoology: Of or pertaining to a vesicle; of the form or nature of a vesicle; cystic; bladdery.
- Having a vesicle; vesiculate; full of or consisting of vesicles, especially when they are small and numerous; areolar; cellular: as, the vesicular tissue of the lungs; a vesicular polyp.
- In botany, pertaining to or consisting of vesicles; appearing as if composed of small bladders; bladdery.
- In geology, the epithet applied to rocks having a cellular structure, the cavities being rather large and well rounded, but not very abundant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs.
- adjective Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate.
- adjective Having the form or structure of a vesicle.
- adjective (Anat.) a series of nerve cells forming one of the tracts distinguished in the spinal cord; -- also called the
ganglionic column . - adjective (Med.) emphysema of the lungs, in which the air vesicles are distended and their walls ruptured.
- adjective (Med.) the sound, audible on auscultation of the chest, made by the air entering and leaving the air vesicles of the lungs in respiration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
vesicles . - adjective Having vesicles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or involving vesicles
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Examples
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The host virus causes a disease called vesicular stomatitis in animals and people.
Marburg and Ebola Virus Vaccine successful in Monkeys | Impact Lab 2005
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This soft, rustling sound is known as vesicular murmur, and wherever it is heard it signifies that the lung contains air and is functionally active.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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That complex has far fewer components and is involved in a completely different cellular process, called vesicular transport, by which materials move in, out and around the cell enclosed in vesicles.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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That complex has far fewer components and is involved in a completely different cellular process, called vesicular transport, by which materials move in, out and around the cell enclosed in vesicles.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The vaccine is based on a livestock pathogen called vesicular stomatitis virus, which has been engineered to express a glycoprotein also present on Ebola's envelope.
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The Opportunity rover has been taking pictures of the Victoria Crater, and Spirit has been photographing the Esperanza formation which contains "vesicular" basalt (characterized by multiple cavities representing dissolved gas escaping from solution during a volcanic eruption).
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010
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Optineurin is a multifunctional protein involved in several functions such as vesicular trafficking from the Golgi to the plasma membrane, NF-kappa B regulation, signal transduction and gene expression.
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The Opportunity rover has been taking pictures of the Victoria Crater, and Spirit has been photographing the Esperanza formation which contains "vesicular" basalt (characterized by multiple cavities representing dissolved gas escaping from solution during a volcanic eruption).
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The Opportunity rover has been taking pictures of the Victoria Crater, and Spirit has been photographing the Esperanza formation which contains "vesicular" basalt (characterized by multiple cavities representing dissolved gas escaping from solution during a volcanic eruption).
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The Opportunity rover has been taking pictures of the Victoria Crater, and Spirit has been photographing the Esperanza formation which contains "vesicular" basalt (characterized by multiple cavities representing dissolved gas escaping from solution during a volcanic eruption).
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