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vesicular, a.|vɪˈsɪkjʊlə(r)|
[ad. early mod.L. vesicular-is (whence F. vésiculaire, Pg. vesicular, It. vescicolare), f. L. vēsīcula: see prec.]
1. Having the form or structure of a vesicle; bladder-like.
a. Anat.c1720Gibson Farrier's Guide i. App. (1722) 101 These receive the Chyle..into the vesicular Kernels of the Mesentery. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Lungs, Its inner Laminæ fill up the Interstices, which are below the Bunches of the small Lobes [in the lungs], with little vesicular Cells. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) V. 10 There are no organs of generation that differ so much..as these vesicular bags. 1873Mivart Elem. Anat. x. 416 A simple vesicular heart may be continued on forwards into a median artery. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 859 The nucleus is single; it is large when full grown, vesicular, with chromatin globules or ribbons.
b. Bot.1848Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) I. 147 A vesicular organ, which he terms Cistome. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 303 The spores are developed freely in the vesicular cells destined to produce them. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 514 Their capacity for transport is increased by the vesicular hollow protrusions of the extine.
c. Physics.1860A. W. Greely Amer. Weather vii. (1888) 60 It was formerly advanced that these minute drops of rain or fog were vesicular—that is, hollow spheres! 1863Tyndall Heat vi. §224 (1870) 176 If the particles of water be sufficiently small they will float..without being vesicular.
2. Characterized by the presence of vesicles; composed of parts having the form of vesicles.
a. Anat.1715Cheyne Princ. Relig. i. vi. §37 (ed. 2) 312 A Muscle is a bundle of Vesicular Threads, or of solid Filaments, involved in one common Membrane. 1833Sir C. Bell Hand (1834) 69 Cold-blooded animals..respire less frequently than other creatures,..hence their vesicular lungs. 1848Carpenter Anim. Phys. i. (1872) 76 We find a form of nervous tissue,..generally known as the vesicular. 1855Bain Senses & Int. i. ii. §16 These central masses all contain grey substance, the cellular or vesicular matter. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 364 A true serpent, with large vesicular lungs.
b. Bot.1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Vesicularis..scabrities, vesicular or bladdery ruggedness. 1802R. Hall Elem. Bot. 195 Vesicular,..having small bodies like bladders on the surface.
c. Physics.1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 357 He calls them vesicular vapour, whose particles may be distinguished by the eye. 1832Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt xvi. 204 In the beginning of March the accumulation of vesicular vapours became visible. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sci. xxviii. 296 The vesicular state constituting a cloud. 1880Times 25 Dec. 5 The silicate of soda was left in the state of a highly vesicular mass.
d. Geol.1811Pinkerton Petralogy II. 328 (heading), Vesicular Lava. 1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) 330 The cavities in vesicular lava vary in size from that of a pea to a small nut. 1843Portlock Geol. 106 The whiter grits are also sometimes vesicular from the local removal of the calcareous paste. 1882Geikie Text-bk. Geol. ii. ii. iii. 89 When this cellular structure is marked by comparatively few and small holes, it may be called vesicular.
3. Zool. Of worms: (see quot. 1861).
1830R. Knox Béclard's Anat. 378 The cysts which contain vesicular worms. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. vii. xiii. 391 Under the name of Vesicular or Cystic Helmintha are included those entozoa which terminate in a vesicle, are contained in a cyst, or are composed of the latter only. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. (ed. 6) 115 Vesicular Tape-worms are of considerable size.
4. Path.
a. Characterized by the formation or presence of vesicles on the skin.
1818–20E. Thompson Cullen's Nosol. Method. (ed. 3) 328 Pemphigus; Vesicular Fever. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxv. 318 The vesicular and scaly eruptions occurred in delicate persons. 1876Duhring Dis. Skin 78 Vesicular eczema exhibits the lesion in its most perfect state. 1886Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 632/1 Vesicular eczema may occur in very small patches or in quite extensive areas.
b. Affecting or connected with the vesicles or air-cells of the lungs.
1829Cooper Goods Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 622 These organs [the lungs] are in a state of vesicular or pulmonary emphysema. 1853Markham Skoda's Auscult. 101 By vesicular breathing, I understand that murmur only which is heard during inspiration. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 244 Vesicular emphysema..consists in an abnormal accumulation of air within the air-cells, whereby they become distended and their walls often atrophied. a1883Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 853 It is commonly called the ‘vesicular murmur’, having been so named when the idea that it arose in the air-cells of the lung was accepted without question.
So veˈsiculary a. rare—1.
1754Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 632 We found, that the animals in the vesicles were dead; but..we had an opportunity of discovering the vesiculary polypes alive, in another coralline. |