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

The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.

er 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.

In the Eucharist, the versicles immediately before the preface, inviting the people to join in the service by "lifting up the heart" to God.

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

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

ssion, 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.

One of the central ossicles in each joint of the arms of an ophiuran.

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.

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