Definition of vesicle

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Vesicle (n.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.

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Subzigomatic :: Subzonal (a.) Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo..
Bulla :: Bulla (n.) A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing a transparent watery fluid..
Spore :: Spore (n.) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.
Pustule :: Pustule (n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus..
Scab :: Scab (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part..
Blister :: Blister (n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle..
Nucleoplasmic :: Nucleoplasmic (a.) Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; -- esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.
Germinal :: Germinal (a.) Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle..
Encysted :: Encysted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor..
Herpes :: Herpes (n.) An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another..
Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid..
Ovococcus :: Ovococcus (n.) A germinal vesicle.
Alveolus :: Alveolus (n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc..
Ringworm :: Ringworm (n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton)..
Cystocarp :: Cystocarp (n.) A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores..
Ice Plant :: Ice plant () A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass..
Vesiculous :: Vesiculous (a.) Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell..
Utricle :: Utricle (n.) A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed..
Splanchno-skeleton :: Splanchnopleure (n.) The inner, or visceral, one of the two lamellae into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure..
Oospere :: Oospere (n.) An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle.
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