Vesicle Definition

vĕsĭ-kəl
vesicles
noun
vesicles
A small, membranous cavity, sac, or cyst.
Webster's New World
A small, spherical cavity in volcanic rock, produced by bubbles of air or gas in the molten rock.
Webster's New World
A small circumscribed elevation of the skin containing serum.
American Heritage Medicine
A membrane-bound structure within a cell in which materials such as enzymes are transported or stored.
American Heritage Medicine

(cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.

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Other Word Forms of Vesicle

Noun

Singular:
vesicle
Plural:
vesicles

Origin of Vesicle

  • Middle English from Old French vesicule from Latin vēsīcula diminutive of vēsīca bladder, blister

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French vésicule or its source, Latin vÄ“sÄ«cula.

    From Wiktionary

Vesicle Sentence Examples

  • M, The water - pore, leading by the stone - canal stc to the waterring, from which hangs a Polian vesicle pb.

  • The statocysts present in general the structure of either a knob or a closed vesicle, composed of (I) indifferent supporting epithelium; (2) sensory, so-called auditory epithelium of slender cells, each.

  • Bergh (for Lumbricus and Criodrilus), whose figures show a derivation of the entire nephridium from mesoblast, and an absence of any connexion between successive nephridia by any continuous band, epiblastic or mesoblastic. A midway position is taken up by Wilson, who asserts the mesoblastic formation of the funnel, but also asserts the presence of a continuous band of epiblast from which certainly the terminal vesicle of the nephridium, and doubtfully the glandular part of the tube is derived.

  • Each testis communicates by means of an efferent duct with a common collecting duct of its side of the body, which opens on to the exterior by means of a protrusible penis, and to which is sometimes appended a seminal vesicle.

  • In the New Britain species the egg is still smaller (I mm.), and there is a large trophic vesicle.

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