Definitions for: Vesicular


[adj] of or relating to or involving vesicles; "normal vesicular breathing"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

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