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Vesicle   /vˈɛzɪkəl/   Listen
Vesicle

noun
1.
A small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid).  Synonym: cyst.



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"Vesicle" Quotes from Famous Books



... fist. Wellington Gray removed an enormous lingual dermoid from the mouth of a negro. It contained 40 ounces of atheromatous material. Dermoids of the rectum are reported. Duyse reports the history of a case of labor during which a rectal dermoid was expelled. The dermoid contained a cerebral vesicle, a rudimentary eye, a canine and a molar tooth, and a piece of bone. There is little doubt that many cases of fetus in fetu reported were really dermoids ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... 'know ye not,' says he, 'that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost? What sort of a 'temple of the Holy Ghost' is he, every atom and molecule of whose physical system is saturated and stenched with the vile fetor of tobacco; whose every vesicle is distended by its foul gases; whose brain and marrow are begrimed and blackened with its sooty vapors and effluxions; all whose pores jet forth its malignant stream like so many hydrants; whose prayers are breathed out, not with a sweet, but with a ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew



Words linked to "Vesicle" :   Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, bulla, blister, follicle, liposome, seminal vesicle, lacrimal sac, sac, Golgi complex, tear sac, dacryocyst, bleb, dictyosome



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