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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