Defn: Tending, or having power, to raise a blister.
— n.
Defn: A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
VESICLE Ves"i*cle, n. Etym: [L. vesicula, dim. of vesica a bladder, blister; akin to Skr. vasti bladder: cf. F. vésicule.]
Defn: A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell.
Specifically: —(a) (Bot.)
Defn: A small bladderlike body in the substance of vegetable, or upon the surface of a leaf. (b) (Med.)
Defn: A small, and more or less circular, elevation of the cuticle, containing a clear watery fluid. (c) (Anat.) A cavity or sac, especially one filled with fluid; as, the umbilical vesicle. (d) (Zoöl.) A small convex hollow prominence on the surface of a shell or a coral. (e) (Geol.) A small cavity, nearly spherical in form, and usually of the size of a pea or smaller, such as are common in some volcanic rocks. They are produced by the liberation of watery vapor in the molten mass.
VESICO-
Ves"i*co-.
Defn: A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the bla; as in vesicoprostatic, vesicovaginal.
VESICOPROSTATIC
Ves`i*co*pro*stat"ic, a. (Anat.)
Defn: Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.