vesicle

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This goes on deepening in hue till the seventh or eighth day, when the vesicle is about an inch in diameter, with a depressed centre; on the ninth the edges are elevated, and the surrounding part hard and inflamed.

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  1. noun A small bladderlike cell or cavity.
  2. noun Anatomy A small sac or cyst, especially one containing fluid.
  3. noun Pathology A serum-filled blister formed in or beneath the skin.
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  • In the immune cell, endocytosis forms a container called a vesicle that contains AIDS virus. —  The Why Files
  • The wall of the gas vesicle is a non-unit membrane 2 to 3 nm in thickness, bearing very regular striations with a periodicity of 4 nm, oriented more or less at right angles to the long axis of the cylinder. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Iwamoto Y, Morinobu S, Takahashi T, Yamawaki S (2007) Single prolonged stress increases contextual freezing and the expression of glycine transporter 1 and vesicle-associated membrane protein 2 mRNA in the hippocampus of rats. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The protein complex composed of vesicle-associated membrane protein 2, synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa, and syntaxin —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • However, lower invertebrates, such as flatworms, have developed almost as complex an organ as that of the human male penis - with a seminal vesicle, a prostate gland and ejaculatory duct. —  ScreenTalk
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  1. Middle English, from Old French vesicule, from Latin vēsīcula, diminutive of vēsīca, bladder, blister.

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  1. = French vésicule, from Latin vesicula, a little blister, a vesicle, diminutive of vesica, bladder, blister: see vesica.
 

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