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Vesicular adj.

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.

Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, a vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.

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 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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... mammals are receptacles for their own albuminous secretion, the function of which is unknown. Steinach could find no spermatozoa in these "seminal" sacs, and therefore he proposed to use Owen's name of glandulae vesiculares. After extirpation of these vesicular glands in the white rat typical coitus occurred. But the capacity for procreation was diminished, and extirpation of both glandulae vesiculares and glandulae prostaticae led to disappearance of the capacity for procreation. Steinach came ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... large vesicular sacs or tubular structures connected with the seminal vesicles in ...

— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith

... Medusae consisted each of a disc with tentacles and vesicular bodies at the margins, a stomach, and canals proceeding from it, and generative organs. He traced this simple common structure through the complications and modifications in which it appeared in the different groups of Medusae, in all this work bringing out the prevailing ...

— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell

... and chemical irritants. The most commonly employed are vinegar, acetic acid, carbolic acid, nitric acid, and carbonate of sodium; but tramps frequently use sorrel and various species of ranunculus. The lesions simulated are usually inflammatory in character, such as erythema, vesicular and bullous eruptions, and ulceration of the skin. They may be complicated by the presence of pediculi and other animal and vegetable parasites. Chromidrosis of the lower eyelids in young women often owes its origin to a box of paints. Factitious skin diseases are seen most commonly ...

— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... one of the functions of vesicular-nervous material to retain traces or relics of impressions brought to it by the organs of sense; hence, nervous ganglia, being composed of that material, may be considered as registering apparatus. They also introduce the element of time into the action of the ...

— History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science • John William Draper

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