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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small bladderlike cell or cavity.
  2. n. Anatomy A small sac or cyst, especially one containing fluid.
  3. n. Pathology A serum-filled blister formed in or beneath the skin.
  4. n. Geology A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In petrography, a cavity in lava formed by the expansion of escaping gasbubbles, chiefly of steam.
  2. n. Any small bladder-like structure, cavity, cell, or the like, in a body; a membranous or vesicular vessel or cavity; a little sac or cyst. Also vesicule. In anatomy and zoology, a small bladder or sac: a generic term of wide application to various hollow structures, otherwise of very different character and requiring specification by a qualifying word. Many such formations are embryonic and so transitory, and have other distinctive names when matured
  3. n. A minute hollow sphere or bubble of water or other liquid.

Wiktionary

  1. n. cytology A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
  2. n. A small bladder-like cell or cavity.
  3. n. 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. n. anatomy A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
  5. n. geology A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
  2. n. (Bot.) A small bladderlike body in the substance of a vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf.
  3. n. (Med.) A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid.
  4. n. (Anat.) A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid.
  5. n. (Zoöl.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral.
  6. n. (Geol.) A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the molten mass.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

Etymologies

  1. From French vésicule or its source, Latin vēsīcula. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French vesicule, from Latin vēsīcula, diminutive of vēsīca, bladder, blister. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • jwjarvis can be visualised as a bubble of liquid within another liquid. lysosome, vacuole Nov 13, 2010

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