Vesicle

Definitions

1. A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
2. A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:
3. A small sac filled with juice, one of many constituting the pulp of a fruit such as an orange, lemon, or grapefruit.
4. A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.
5. (usually and especially) Such a blister that is less than 5 mm in diameter.
6. A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
7. A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.

Equivalents

Examples

“It frequently contains holes, or vesicles, especially nearer the surface of a flow⟳ where gas has escaped.”

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