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[syn: vesicle, cyst]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vesicle \Ves"i*cle\, n. [L. vesicula, dim. of vesica a bladder,
blister; akin to Skr. vasti bladder: cf. F. v['e]sicule.]
A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
Specifically:
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(a) (Bot.) A small bladderlike body in the substance of a
vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf.
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(b) (Med.) A small, and more or less circular, elevation of
the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.
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(c) (Anat.) A cavity or sac, especially one filled with
fluid; as, the umbilical vesicle.
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(d) (Zool.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface
of a shell or a coral.
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(e) (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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
vesicle
n 1: a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure
(especially one containing fluid) [syn: vesicle, cyst]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
115 Moby Thesaurus words for "vesicle":
air bubble, balloon, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain,
bleb, blemish, blister, blob, blood blister, boss, bow, bubble,
bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, check, chine,
cicatrix, clump, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze,
defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration,
disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, fault, fever blister,
flange, flap, flaw, freckle, gall, globule, gnarl, handle,
hemangioma, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kink,
knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole,
mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg,
pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain,
pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, scab, scar, scratch,
sebaceous cyst, shoulder, soap bubble, spine, split,
strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, track, tubercle, tubercule,
twist, verruca, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead