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vesicular


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  Containing,  or  composed  of  vesicles  or  vesiclelike 
  structures;  covered  with  vesicles  or  bladders;  vesiculate; 
  as  vesicular  coral;  vesicular  lava;  a  vesicular  leaf. 
 
  3.  Having  the  form  or  structure  of  a  vesicle;  as  a  vesicular 
  body. 
 
  {Vesicular  column}  (Anat.),  a  series  of  nerve  cells  forming 
  one  of  the  tracts  distinguished  in  the  spinal;  --  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  vesicular 
  adj  :  of  or  relating  to  or  involving  vesicles;  "normal  vesicular 
  breathing" 




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