Vesicle

//ˈvɛsɪkəl//

Synonyms for "vesicle" (121 found)

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Translations

43 translations across 17 languages.

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Bulgarian

4 entries
  • ки́ста noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)
  • кухина́ noun (geology: small cavity)
  • меху́рче noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • торби́чка noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)

Catalan

2 entries
  • vesícula noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • vesícula noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 囊泡 noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)

Dutch

2 entries
  • blaasje noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • vesikel noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)

Finnish

4 entries
  • kalvorakkula noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)
  • rakko noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)
  • rakkula noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)
  • rakkula noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)

Galician

1 entries
  • vesícula noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)

German

3 entries
  • Blase noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • Blase noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)
  • Blase noun (geology: small cavity)

Greek

4 entries
  • κυστίδιο noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)
  • κυστίδιο noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • κυστίδιο noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)
  • κυστίδιο noun (anatomy: pocket of embryonic tissue)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • hólyag noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • hólyagcsa noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • hólyagocska noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • vízhólyag noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)

Ido

4 entries
  • veziketo noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)
  • veziketo noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)
  • veziketo noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)
  • veziketo noun (anatomy: pocket of embryonic tissue)

Irish

1 entries
  • cloigín noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)

Japanese

4 entries
  • 小胞 noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)
  • 小胞 noun (anatomy: pocket of embryonic tissue)
  • 気孔 noun (geology: small cavity)
  • 水疱 noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)

Polish

1 entries
  • pęcherzyk noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)

Romanian

1 entries
  • veziculă noun (small bladderlike cell or cavity)

Spanish

1 entries
  • vesícula noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)

Swedish

1 entries
  • vesikel noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • bọng noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)
  • túi noun (cytology: membrane-bound compartment)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The most likely path a protein will take after being created is as follows: after a protein is made in the RER, it is sent via a transition vesicle to the Golgi apparatus, where it is processed, and then sent to its final destination in a secretory vesicle.

Source: tatoeba (8160699)

A vesicle is a biological structure.

Source: tatoeba (8450070)

The ovaries develop with the growth of the female, so that, finally, at the pubescent period, they ripen and liberate an ovum, or germ vesicle, which is carried into the uterine cavity through the Fallopian tubes.

Source: tatoeba (11641397)

It frequently contains holes, or vesicles, especially nearer the surface of a flow where gas has escaped.

Source: wiktionary

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