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An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

seed; pertaining to, or connected with, the formation of semen; as, seminiferous cells or vesicles.

-- Sheep pox (Med.), a contagious disease of sheep, characterixed by the development of vesicles or pocks upon the skin. -- Sheep scabious. (Bot.) Same as Sheep's bit. -- Sheep shears, shears in which the blades form the two ends of a steel bow, by the elasticity of which they open as often as pressed together by t…

ruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar.

er side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the enteric canal and the umbilical vesicle are developed. See Somatopleure. -- Splanch`no*pleu"ric, a.

An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.

nder a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.

Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.

a flower, fruit, or leaf; navel-shaped; having an umbilicus; as, an umbilicated smallpox vesicle.

ression, or dimpling, of the center of a rounded body; as, the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle; also, the condition of being umbilicated.

A little sac or vesicle, as the air cell of fucus, or seaweed.

A vesicle.

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.

To form vesicles in, as lava.

The state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed.

Inflammation of a vesicle.

Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell.

rtebrates. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Appendix. -- Yolk sack (Anat.), the umbilical vesicle. See under Unbilical.