VESICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vesicle mean? 

• VESICLE (noun)
  The noun VESICLE has 1 sense:

1. a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

  Familiarity information: VESICLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VESICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cyst; vesicle

Hypernyms ("vesicle" is a kind of...):

sac (a structure resembling a bag in an animal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vesicle"):

dacryocyst; lacrimal sac; tear sac (either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands)

dictyosome; Golgi apparatus; Golgi body; Golgi complex (a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions))

bleb; blister; bulla ((pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid)

follicle (any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity)

liposome (an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector)

 Context examples 

Further experiments showed that bacterial vesicles directly affect HIV rather than cells.

(Vesicles released by bacteria may reduce the spread of HIV in human tissue, National Institutes of Health)

A membrane-bound vesicle that encompasses several smaller membrane-bound vesicles.

(Multivesicular Body, NCI Thesaurus)

Both groups also found evidence that Arc capsids contain Arc mRNA and that the capsids are released from neurons inside those vesicles.

(Memory gene goes viral, National Institutes of Health)

Vesicles inside cells move substances into or out of the cell.

(Cellular Vesicle, NCI Dictionary)

The pruritic fluid-filled vesicles occur 10-21 days after exposure and last for 3-4 days.

(Chicken Pox Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cysteine-rich hydrophobic domain 2 protein, may be involved in cellular vesicle transport.

(CHIC2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in synaptic vesicle exocytosis.

(APBA1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Osteoblasts mineralize bone matrix by promoting hydroxyapatite crystal formation and growth in the interior of membrane-limited matrix vesicles (MVs) and by propagating the crystals onto the collagenous extracellular matrix.

(Bone Mineralization Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes amyloid beta A4 precursor protein-binding family A member 1 protein, plays a role in both the exocytosis of synaptic vesicles and amyloid beta A4 precursor protein proteolysis.

(APBA1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Activation of cyclin B-Cdc2 causes breakdown of the germinal vesicle and the initiation of oocyte maturation.

(Oocyte Maturation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)