Word Meanings - VESICLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. Specifically: --

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• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• MEMBRANOUS
  Membranaceous. Membranous croup , true croup. See Croup. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.
• CAVITY
  1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• INTERMEMBRANOUS
  Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.
• CONCAVITY
  A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
• BLOOD VESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• UNVESSEL
  To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. Ford.
• TANK SHIP; TANK VESSEL
  A vessel fitted with tanks for the carrying of oil or other liquid in bulk.