Usually means: Small membrane-bound sac, organelle.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. vesicle: Merriam-Webster
  2. vesicle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vesicle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vesicle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vesicle: Vocabulary.com
  6. vesicle: Wordnik
  7. vesicle: Wiktionary
  8. vesicle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. vesicle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. vesicle: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. vesicle: Dictionary.com
  12. vesicle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Vesicle (biology), Vesicle (biology and chemistry), Vesicle (dermatology), Vesicle (embryology), Vesicle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Vesicle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. vesicle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. vesicle: Rhymezone
  17. Vesicle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. vesicle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. vesicle: FreeDictionary.org
  20. vesicle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. vesicle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vesicle: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vesicle (disambiguation), vesicle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. vesicle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Vesicle: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. vesicle: Sound Alike Words
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Vesicle: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  7. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  8. vesicle: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. vesicle: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  10. Vesicle (disambiguation), vesicle: Medical dictionary
  11. Vesicle: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Terrorism Terms (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  5. Vesicle: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  6. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vesicle: Beauty & Health Glossary
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vesicle)

noun:  (cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
noun:  A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as:
noun:  (botany) A small sac filled with juice, one of many constituting the pulp of a fruit such as an orange, lemon, or grapefruit.
noun:  (biology, medicine) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.
noun:  (biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is less than 5 mm in diameter.
noun:  (anatomy) A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
noun:  (geology) A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.

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