英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Vesicle
(n.)
A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
Vesicle
(n.)
A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or
upon the surface of a leaf.
Vesicle
(n.)
A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the
cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.
Vesicle
(n.)
A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the
umbilical vesicle.
Vesicle
(n.)
A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell
or a coral.
Vesicle
(n.)
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.
A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
with, or relation to, the bladder; as in vesicoprostatic,
vesicovaginal.
Vesicoprostatic
(a.)
Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate
gland.
Vesicouterine
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.
Vesicovaginal
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
Vesicula
(n.)
A vesicle.
Vesiculae
(pl. )
of Vesicula
Vesicular
(a.)
Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to
the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing,
or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of
the lungs.
Vesicular
(a.)
Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike
structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as,
vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.
Vesicular
(a.)
Having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a
vesicular body.
Vesicularia
(n.)
Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa
belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular
cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.
Vesiculata
(n. pl.)
The campanularian medusae.
Vesiculate
(a.)
Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders;
vesicular.
Vesiculate
(v. t.)
To form vesicles in, as lava.
Vesiculation
(n.)
The state of containing vesicles, or the process by
which vesicles are formed.