01 a. Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal br…
-
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, a vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.
-
3.
Having the form or structure of a vesicle; as, a vesicular body.
Phrases & compounds
Vesicular column —
a series of nerve cells forming one of the tracts distinguished in the spinal cord; -- also called the ganglionic column.
Vesicular emphysema —
emphysema of the lungs, in which the air vesicles are distended and their walls ruptured.
Vesicular murmur —
the sound, audible on auscultation of the chest, made by the air entering and leaving the air vesicles of the lungs in respiration.