vesicle

名词 n.

英文释义

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

词形变化

vesicles plural

词源

From Middle French vesicule, from Latin vēsīcula. By surface analysis, vesic- + -le. Doublet of vesicule.
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