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vesicle
  1. (cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
  2. A small bladder-like cell or cavity; a vesicula.
  3. (anatomy) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.
  4. (anatomy) A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
  5. (geology) A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The stability of an aggregate will depend on the number of vesicles in the aggregate and on the energy per vesicle.”
      “We investigate the budding and fission of a vesicle induced by the adhesion of the nanoparticle.”
      “An efferent cuticular tubule, or duct, leads out of the end of the vesicle towards the center of the secretory lobe.”
vesica
  1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
  2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Here the central figure is unusually surrounded by the ovoid shape of the vesica piscis.”
      “The first spot you will reach at the bottom of the garden is this vesica piscis shaped pool that has Chalice Well water flowing in to it through a series of flow forms.”
      “Its form is that of the vesica piscis, one of the most common emblems of the yoni.”
vesiculation
  1. The formation of vesicles; blistering.
  2. The presence of vesicles.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The nature and distribution of vesicles in thick komatiite flows indicates two stages of vesiculation.”
      “These properties contribute to curvature stress that promotes hexagonal phase formation and membrane trafficking through vesiculation and fusion.”
      “These proteins were found to be essential for vesiculation at the plasma membrane and the Golgi apparatus, respectively.”
vesiculitis
  1. (medicine) Inflammation of a vesicle, often specifically the seminal vesicles
vesicularity
  1. The state or condition of being vesicular; presence of vesicles.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ash particles can have varying degrees of vesicularity and vesicular particles can have extremely high surface area to volume ratios.”
      “Again, vesicularity suggests the exsolution of the fluid phase on quenching of the silicate liquid.”
      “Morphologically, tephras are mixtures of basaltic and pumice shards, both having various degrees of vesicularity.”
vesication
  1. The formation of vesicles; blistering.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The application is to be renewed night and morning, until vesication is produced.”
      “Later, vesication of the whole pericarpal region is done and the subject allowed exercise at will.”
      “Their alkylation may cause changes in the cellular architecture and, in direct line with that, be determinative for the onset of vesication.”
vesicula
vesiculations
  1. plural of vesiculation
vesicularities
  1. plural of vesicularity
vesiculitides
  1. plural of vesiculitis
vesications
vesiculae
vesicae
vesicles
  1. plural of vesicle
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A spectral change was observed upon addition of lipid vesicles to the buffer solution of the sensitizers.”
      “The nature and distribution of vesicles in thick komatiite flows indicates two stages of vesiculation.”
      “The vesicles filled with agarose gel and sucrose solution were diluted into an isoosmolar glucose solution.”
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