Vesicular

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vesicular \Ve*sic"u*lar\, a. [Cf. F. v['e]siculaire.]
     1. Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to
        the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as,
        vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air
        enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs.
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     2. Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike
        structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate;
        as, a vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.
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     3. Having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a vesicular
        body.
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     {Vesicular column} (Anat.), a series of nerve cells forming
        one of the tracts distinguished in the spinal cord; --
        also called the {ganglionic column}.
  
     {Vesicular emphysema} (Med.), emphysema of the lungs, in
        which the air vesicles are distended and their walls
        ruptured.
  
     {Vesicular murmur} (Med.), the sound, audible on auscultation
        of the chest, made by the air entering and leaving the air
        vesicles of the lungs in respiration.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vesicular
       adj : of or relating to or involving vesicles; "normal vesicular
             breathing"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "vesicular":
     arterial, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery,
     bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, camerated, capillary, capsular,
     carbonated, cellular, chiffon, cystic, ebullient, effervescent,
     fizzy, locular, marsupial, puffed, saccular, siliquose, souffle,
     souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, vascular, veinous, venose,
     venous, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, whipped