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VESICATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vesication mean?
• VESICATION (noun)
The noun VESICATION has 1 sense:
1. the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin
Familiarity information: VESICATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
blistering; vesication; vesiculation
Hypernyms ("vesication" is a kind of...):
biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)
Derivation:
vesicate (get blistered)
Context examples
A first degree burn is associated with redness, a second degree burn with vesication and a third degree burn with necrosis through the entire skin.
(Burn, Food and Drug Administration)
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