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VESICATORY.
AllbuWs Syst, Med, VIII. 466 In exceptional cases vesica- :
tions are produced.
2. The formation or development of blisters;
the action or fact of blistering.
x7§3 Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 325 An enlargement of the
eyelids, and vesication of the tunica conjunctix>a. 1807
Med. Jrnl. XVII. 320 A complete vesication had taken
place over the whole extent of the metatarsal hones. 1843
R. J. Graves Syst, Clin. Mf-d. vii. 85 They have no hesitation
in applying a large blister, leaving it on until it produces
full vesication. 1864 Gabrod Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 335
Vesication is also made use of on account of its revulsive
action in internal congestions, as of the head, &c.
Vesicatory (ve-siktr'tari, vesi-katari), sb. and a.
Med, [ad. med. or early mod.L. vesicatortus,
-orium (whence F. vSsicaioiret It. vessuatoriOf Pg.
vesicatorio, Sp. vejigatorio) , f. L. vesica : see
Vesicate v, and -oby.]
A. sb, A sharp irritating ointment, plaster, or
other application for causing the formation of a j
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Freq. with defining terms, as blood-^ food-, germinal^
seminalyunthilicalvesicles', seealsoGRAAFiAN, Purkinjeav.
1578 Banister Hist. Man v. 64 The intrels, which receiue
the dryer excrement, as the Vcssicle of Choler. 1607 WalkiNGTON
Opt. Glass ix. 103 Those men which want the vesicle
of choloT, are both strong and couragious. 1664 Power
Exp. Philos. r. 4 If you divide the Bee near the^ neck, you
shall see the heart beat most lively, which is a white
pulsing vesicle. 1691 Ray Creation 11. (1692) 63 That the
Lungs should be made up of such innumerable Air-pipes and
Vesicles interwoven with Blood Vessels in order to purific,
ferment, or supply the sanguineous Mass with Nitro-aerial
Particles. \^\'^Q,HV.s%\MtMAnai.\.\. ^1726) 12 The marrow
in the larger cells is also contained in their membranous
vesicles. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. il 156 The
vesicles, that go to form the brain. 17^ M. Baillie Morb.
Anat. (1807) 390 The small vesicles which make a part of
the natural structure of the ovaria. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst.
Clin. Med. xxii. 260 These cells may be represented as
so many minute vesicles. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life
Introd. p. xxxvi. The brain [of Amphioxu^l consists of three
primary vesicles.
Como. 1870 Rolliston Anim. Life 155 Contractile Poiian
vesicle-like sacs are developed.
b. Similarly in Bot,
1670 Phil. Trans. V. 1176 There are found many leaves of
other trees, on which grow Vesicles, or small baggs. 1673
Grew Anai. Trunks i. i. 83 \ simple, white, and close
Parenchyma or Barque ; made up of Vesicles . . hardly visible
without a Glass. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. in. v. (1765)183
Pappaiose, nipplyt when it is covered with Vesicles, little
Bladders. 1766 Compl. Farmer s.v. Vegetation^ All the
roots becoming longer, put forth new branches out of their
sides, the second leaf withers, and its vesicles are emptied.
183a Lindley Introd. Bot, 158 This third envelope always
begins by being a mass of cellular tissue, ..and generally
finishes by becoming a vesicle. 1882 Vines Sachs^ Bot. 59
The older hj-pothesis of a deposition of new layers from
within presupposes that the starch-grains were at first
hollow vesicles.
o. Physics, A minute babble or spherule of
liquid or vapour, esp. one of those composing a
cloud or fog.
1731 Miller Card, Diet. s.v. Dew, The thin Vesicles
of which Vapours consist. Ibid., The Warmth .. forms
those Vesicles that are specifically lighter than the Air.
1794 G. Adams Nat. ^ Exp. Philos. IV. Hi. 446 Clouds
are composed of a mafs of vesicles like soap-bubbles. 1854
Brewster More Worlds iii. 61 The aqueous vapour which
it \sc. the atmosphere] contains, whether it exist in minute
vesicles, or in masses of clouds. 1869 Piiipson tr. Guillemin'
Sun (1870) 42 When the vesicles which constitute clouds are
cooled they unite to form drops. 1884 I. Tait Mind in
Matter (1892) 87 The salt is brought by the travelling
clouds, each vesicle charged with a precious burden.
d. Geol. A small spherical or oval cavity produced
by the presence of bubbles of gas or vapour
in volcanic rocks.
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_i8ix PiNKERTON Pctralogy IL 328 The vesicles are sometimes
of an oblong form, but often spherical. x8^ Dana
Geol. vi. (1850) 346 Occasionally we see fragments in which
the vesicles are thickly disseminated. 1879 Rutley Stud.
Rocks xi. igi In some of the obsidians of Hawaii the
vesicles are quite spherical.
2. A hollow swelling. rare~^. (Cf. next.)
1671 Marvell Reh. Transp, w. 11 He demonstrates at
large how impossible it was . . for Mankind to be produced at
first from certain Vesicles or Pimples of the Earth.
3. Path. A small, generally round, elevation of
the cuticle containing fluid matter.
^799 Jenner Further Obs. Variolx Vaccina (iSoi) 33
The patient felt no general indisposition, although there
was so great a number of vessicles. x8oi Med. 'Jrnl. V. 338
He has twice scratched off the surface of the rising vesicle.
1847 VouATT Horse viii. 204 Vesicles will sometimes appear
along the under side of the tongue. 1867 Baker AV/tf Tribut.
viii. (1872) 107 Small vesicles rose above the skin. 1876
Bristowe r/*. ^ Pract. Med. (1878) 295 The amount of
fluid relatively to the solid constituents of vesicles varies
very much.
b. Without article.
184s Encycl, Metrop. VII. 755/1 The vaccine pustule runs
a given course of varus and of vesicle,
Vesico- (ve'sik(?), combining form, on Greek
models, of Vesica, occurring in various terms
referring to the bladder in connexion with some
other part of the body denoted by the second
element, as vesico-cervkal^ -intestinal, -prostatic^
-rectal^ etc. (So F. vhico-.)
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blister or blisters on the skin ; = Blister sb, 3.
Very frequent from c 1650 to c 1780 ; now somewhat rare.
1604 F. Heri.ng Mod. Dejence 18 Vesicatorys to be ap.
plied neere vnto the most principall Part. 1655 Culpepper,
etc, Riverius x. vii. 32 You must apply a Vesicatory to
the forepart of the head. 1676 T. DEGARKNCiEREsCtfr/^/sS
Carrying in his pocket a vesicatory made of cantharides.
170^ F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1711) 38 It can't be done by
Vesicatories without some Pain. 175J Phil. Trans. XLVI I.
504 These were blistered sUzhtly, by means of a small vesi.
catory. 1803 Med. yrtil. X. 310 A vesicatory applied to
the affected part, constantly relieved the pain, and produced
the desired effect. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 7 The
leaves of Knowltonia vesicatoria are used as vesicatories in
Southern Africa. 1875 H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 561
Epispastics, vesicatories, or, more colloquially, blisters.
B. adj. Of the nature of a vesicant ; capable of,
characterized by, raising blisters.
s6ii WooDALL Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 173 The use of
Vesicatory medicines ; namely, Cantharides in painfull
swolne limbs. 1663 Boyle use/. Exp. Nat. Philos. n. ii.
43 If you duly perpend what I lately mentioned, of the
transmutation of water into hot and vesicatory substances.
1817 KiRBY & Sp. Eiitomol. II. 227 The vesicatory beetles
. .are not improbably defended from their assailants by the
remarkable quality.. that distinguishes them. 1813-7 Good
Study Med. (1829) I. 59 The cerambyx tfiosc/iaius, which
possesses a vesicatory power nearly equal to that of the
fytta. x8^ Rep. U. S. Cominissioiter Agric. (18^) 102
Many of these beetles [sc,*Vif/tf/d^I possess strong vesicatory
powers.
Vesicle (ve*sik*l). Also 6, 8 vesaiole. [ad. F.
visicule, or L. y^jfcw/a Vesicola.]
1. a. Attat. and Zoo!, A small bladder-like vessel
in an animal body ; a cavity or cell with a membranous
integument ; a small sac or cyst.
Various other terms, as vesicocele, vesicoclysis ', vesicoabdominal,
-pubic, -spinal, etc., appear in recent Diets.
x^ Buck^s Handbk. Med. .Sci. VIII. 581/2 The tear,
beginning in a rigid os, extends.. up the cervix to the
*vesico-cer\'ical junction. 1835-6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. I.
400 "Vesico-intestinal fistulae sometimes establish a communication
between the bladder and the ileum or colon.
X878 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (1879) II. 64 Vesico-intestinal
Fistula is sometimes met with. 1839-47 TodtCs Cycl. Anat.
III. 933/2 The veins in the neighbourhood of the prostate
gland and of the neck of the bladder . . are called the vesicoprostatic
plexus. 1876 Gross Dis. Bladder, etc. 156 Varicose
enlargement of the vesico- prostatic plexus of veins was
described. Ibid. 339 "Vesico-Rectal Fislule is between the
bladder and rectum, and between the latter tube and the
urethra. 1835-6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 400/2 When the
disease is a *vesico-umbilical fistula, the communication is
with the summit of the bladder. 1885 Buck's Handhk. Med.
Sci. I. 526/2 *Vesico-urethral fissure.. is a crack or fissure
between the folds of the mucosa, at the point of junction of
the urethra and bladder. 1839-47 TodtCs Cycl. Anat. III.
943/1 There are a ^air of recto-uterine peritoneal folds in
the female and a pair of *vesico-uterine folds. 1889 Buck's
Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 581/2 All the tissues below may
heal, leaving an opening at the upper angle of the tear—
vesico-uterine fistula. 1835-6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 400/2
* Vesico-vaginal fistulae are sometimes, .the result of the
progress of a uterine cancer- 1876 Gross Dis. Bladder,
etc. 326 Vesico-vaginal fistule is an opening between the
bladder and vagina. 1889 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII.
580/2 The tear reaches up to, or dissects off the vesicovaginal
tissue from the uterus.
II Vesicula
(v/si-ki/Ha). PI. vesioulaB (-irfli).
[L. vesicu/a a little blister, a vesicle, dim. of
vesica Vksica.]
1. = Vesicle i. Usually in pi.
In Anat. also with defining terms, as vesicular seminales
a. Anat. 17x5 Cheyne Priuc Relig. i. iii. § 12 (ed. 2) 134
Spiral Threads, which divide these hollow Fibrils into so
many elastick Cystes or Vesiculae. X7a8 Chambers Cycl.
s.v. Lungs, A Stone-Cutter, the Vesiculae of whose Lungs
were.. stuffed with Dust. 1771 Encycl. Brit. I. 282/2 Tlie
thoracic duct, .terminates in some subjects by a kind of
vesicula. 1835-6 ToddHs Cycl. Annt. I. 380/2 (Bladder),
Towards the vesiculae it [the cellular coat] is dense and
white, and supports a number of veins. 1849-52 Ibid. IV.
ir, 1431/1 The difficulty of proving the identity of sacs called
vesiculae in other animals.
b. Bot. 1718 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Vegetation, These
Seed-Leaves consist of a great Number of little Vesiculae,
or Bladders. 183* Lindley Introd. Bot. 207 Vesiculae, inflations
of the thallus, filled with air, by means of which the
plants are enabled to float
c. Physics, i-jx^ Derham Phys.'Theol. 1. iii. 22 note.
Vapours being, .no other than inflated Vesiculae of Water.
2. Path, «= Vesicle 3.
X876 DuHRiNG Dis. Skin 43 Vesiculae are circumscribed,
rounded elevations of the epidermis, varying in size from a
pin-point to a split.pea, containing a clear serous fluid.
Vesicular (visiki/Haj), a. [ad. early mod.L.
vesicular-is (whence F. visiculaire, Pg. vesicular,
It. vescicolare), f. L. vesicula : see prec]
1. Having the form or stmcture of a vesicle
bladder-like.
a. Anat. c 17J0 Gibson Farrier's Guide i. App. (1722) 101
These receive the Chyle, .into the vesicular Kernels of the
Mesentery. 17JS Fam, Diet. s.v. Lungs, Its inner Laminx
fill up the Interstices, which are below the Bunches of the
small Lobes [in the lungs], withlittle vesicular Cells. 1822-7
Good Study Med. (1829) V. 10 There are no organs of
generation that differ so much.. as these vesicular bags.
1873 MiVART Elem. Anat. x. 416 A simple vesicular heart
may be continued on forwards into a median artery. x888
RoixESTON & Jackson Anim, Life 859 The nucleus is
single ; it is large when full grown, vesicular, with chromatin
globules or ribbons.
b. Bot. X848 I-TNDLEV Introd, Bot. (ed. 4) I. 147 A vesicular
organ, which he terms Cistome. 1867 J. Hogg
Microsc. II. i. 303 The spores are developed freely in the
vesicular cells destined to produce them. x88a Vines Sachs*
Bot. 514 Their capacity for transport is increased by the
vesicular hollow protrusions of the extine.
c. Physics, i860 A. Greelv Amer. Weather vii. C1888) 60
It was formerly advanced that these minute drops of rain
VESICULATION.
or fog were vesicular— that is, hollow spheres ! 1863
TvNDALL Heat vi. § 224 (1S70) 176 If the particles of water
be sufficiently small they will float . . without being vesicular.
2. Characterized by the presence of vesicles
composed of parts having the form of vesicles.
a. Anat. 1715 Cheyne Princ. Relig. i. vi. § 37 (ed.2) 312
.\ Muscle is a bundle of Vesicular Threads, or of solid
Filaments, involved in one common Membrane. 1833 Sir
C. Bell Hand (1834) 69 Cold-blooded animals.. respire less
frequently than other creatures, . , hence their vesicular
lungs. 1848 Carpenter Anim. Phys. i. (1B72) 76 We find a
form of nervous tissue, . . generally known as the vesicular.
1855 Bain Senses ^ Int. 1. ii. § 16 These central masses all
contain grey substance, the cellular or vesicular matter.
x86o (JossE Rom. Nat. Hist. 364 A true serpent, with large
vesicular lungs.
b. Bot. ^79^ Martvk Lang. Bot., Vesicularis..scabritiest
vesicular or bladdery ruggedness. x8oa R. Hall Elefu.
Bot. 195 Vesicular, .. having small bodies like bladders on
the surface.
C. Physics. 1794 SuLivAN View Nat. I. 357 He calls
them vesicular vapour, whose particles may be distinguished
by the eye. 183a Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt xvi. 204
In the beginning of March the accumulation of vesicular
vapours became visible. X834 Mrs. Somerville C«««jr.
Phys. Sci. x.\viii. 296 The vesicular state constituting a
cloud. 1880 'Times 25 Dec. 5 The silicate of soda was left
in the state of a highly vesicular maps.
d. Geol. i8xi PiNKERTON Petralogy II. 328 {keadifig).
Vesicular Lava. i8i3BAKEWELL/«^r£'rf.G