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vesicle
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small, bladder-like structure," early 15c., from Middle French vesicule , from Latin vesicula "little blister," diminutive of vesica "bladder, blister" (see ventral ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vesicle may refer to: In cellular biology or chemistry Vesicle (biology and chemistry) , a supramolecular assembly of lipid molecules, like a cell membrane Synaptic vesicle In human embryology Auditory vesicle Optic vesicles In human anatomy and morphology ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context cytology English) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell. 2 A small bladder-like cell or cavity. 3 (context anatomy English) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) [syn: cyst ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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: (Bot.) A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, ...
Usage examples of vesicle.
In particular, those vesicles that have developed the ability to synthesize simple proteins that stabilize their delicate lipid bilayer membranes will be more likely to survive than those that have not.
He advises rubbing the tumour with these vesicles bruised in the hand, and afterwards washing the part with sea water.
The irritation extends into the ejaculatory ducts, thence backward into the seminal vesicles, and downward through the vasa deferentia to the testes.
So Nature shapes her hyaline vesicles and modifies them to serve the needs of the part where they are found.
The vesicles of miliaria are generally solitary, and appear on those portions of the body most liable to become heated and to perspire.
By its characteristic bladders, or vesicles studded about the blades of the branched narrowish fronds, this Sea Weed may be easily known.
Evie asked Tig Vesicle did he have a twink called Ed Chianese in one of the tanks.
This disease may be distinguished from variola and varioloid by the shortness of the period of invasion, the mildness of the symptoms, and the absence of the deep, funnel-shaped depression of the vesicles, so noticeable in variola.
The first is a series of autocatalytic chemical reactions concentrated within tiny vesicles whose skins are self-organizing lipid bilayers.
Higher life now emerged in the form of coelelminthes which perfused from the vesicles of the homunculolilium, or man-lily.
There are increases in the numbers of synapses in the LPO, in the numbers of vesicles per synapse, and even in the length of the postsynaptic thickenings in left IMHV and LPO.
The special arrangements of the vessels and the ducts of all the glands, of the air-tubes and vesicles of the lungs, of the parts which make up the skin and other membranes, all the details of those complex parenchymatous organs which had confounded investigation so long, have been lifted out of the invisible into the sight of all observers.
So Nature shapes her hyaline vesicles and modifies them to serve the needs of the part where they are found.
This thickening is the area of the postsynaptic membrane which contains the receptor molecules and which traps the transmitter released from the many small vesicles visible packed into the presynaptic terminal.
There were more vesicles there, flatter and more diffuse, but telling the same dread story.