vesicle
IPA: vˈɛzɪkʌɫ
noun
- (cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
- A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:
- (botany) A small sac filled with juice, one of many constituting the pulp of a fruit such as an orange, lemon, or grapefruit.
- (biology, medicine) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.
- (biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is less than 5 mm in diameter.
- (anatomy) A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
- (geology) A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.
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Examples of "vesicle" in Sentences
- Inside-outside transitions of phospholipids in vesicle membranes.
- There is a common uro-genital duct, into which a seminal vesicle, which is especially large in early spring, opens.
- All of the molecules in a given vesicle are identical; that is, a vesicle will contain only norepinephrine molecules or only GABA molecules.
- -- The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that finally at the period of puberty they ripen and liberate an ovum or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity of the
- -- The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that finally at the period of puberty they ripen and liberate an ovum or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity of the Fallopian tubes.
- The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that, finally, at the pubescent period, they ripen and liberate an ovum, or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity through the Fallopian tubes.
- The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
- The punctured part on a boys arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
- In this work he demonstrated first, that the Graafian follicles in the ovary are not the actual eggs, but that they contain the spherical vesicle, which is the true ovum, a body about the one hundred and twentieth of an inch in diameter, wherein lie the properties transmitting the physical and mental characteristics of the parent or grandparent, or even of more remote ancestors.
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