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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vesicular \Ve*sic"u*lar\, adjective [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vesicular
adjective: of or relating to or involving vesicles; "normal vesicular breathing"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "vesicular": arterial, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, camerated, capillary, capsular, carbonated, cellular, chiffon, cystic, ebullient, effervescent, fizzy, locular, marsupial, puffed, saccular, siliquose, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, vascular, veinous, venose, venous, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, whipped
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