vesicular
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
vesicular
adj 1: of or relating to or involving vesicles; "normal
vesicular breathing"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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