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vesicular

 
Dictionary: ve·sic·u·lar   (vĕ-sĭk'yə-lər, və-) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Of or relating to vesicles.
  2. Composed of or containing vesicles.
  3. Having the form of a vesicle.
vesicularly ve·sic'u·lar·ly adv.

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Medical Dictionary: ve·sic·u·lar
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(vĕ-sĭk'yə-lər, və-)
adj.
  1. Of or relating to vesicles.
  2. Composed of or containing vesicles.
  3. Having the form of a vesicle.
ve·sic'u·lar·ly adv.
Veterinary Dictionary: vesicular
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1. composed of or relating to small, saclike bodies.
2. pertaining to or made up of vesicles on the skin.

  • avian v. dermatitis — vesicles on the skin of the feet and toes and occasionally on the head, on all birds; caused usually by photosensitization.
  • v. disease — a group of diseases of cloven-footed animals of major importance because of their high infectivity. See foot-and-mouth disease, vesicular stomatitis and vesicular exanthema of swine (below), swine vesicular disease, poisoning by the mushroom amanita.
  • v. emphysema — see alveolar emphysema.
  • v. exanthema of swine — an acute febrile disease caused by a calicivirus, genus Vesivirus. The clinical syndrome is one of vesicular stomatitis, with lesions occurring also on the coronets. The disease only ever appeared in the USA and was eradicated from that country in 1959.
  • v. gland — an accessory sex gland in ruminants, the counterpart of the seminal vesicle in the stallion but glandular instead of cystic. Consists of a much-coiled tube that exits at the seminal colliculus in the urethra.
  • v. murmur, v. sounds — the soft, sibilant sounds heard by stethoscopic auscultation over the lung parenchyma. They are caused by air moving in and out of the alveoli and terminal bronchioles and are an expression of normality of the lung tissue. Called also vesicular murmur.
  • porcine idiopathic v. disease — see porcine parvovirus.
  • v. stomatitis (VS) — an infectious disease of horses, cattle and pigs caused by a vesiculovirus transmitted by mosquitoes and biting flies. The clinical syndrome is one of vesicular stomatitis but lesions can occur on the udder and coronets.
    Ruptured vesicles on the oral mucosa of a calf with vesicular stomatitis infection. By permission from Blowey RW, Weaver AD, Diseases and Disorders of Cattle, Mosby, 1997
  • swine v. disease — see swine vesicular disease.
  • v. vaginitis — see infectious pustular vulvovaginitis.
  • v. venereal disease — see infectious pustular vulvovaginitis.
WordNet: vesicular
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of or relating to or involving vesicles
  Pertains to noun: vesicle (meaning #1)


 
 

 

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