Vesicle

/ˈvɛsɪkəl/

Synonyms for "vesicle" (132 found)

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Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

2 entries

More specific

8 entries
bullaclear-core vesicledense-core vesicleendocytic vesicleexosomemicrovesiclesecretory vesicletransport vesicle

Collocations

6 entries
extracellular vesiclesecretory vesiclesynaptic vesicletransport vesiclevesicle membranevesicle trafficking

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Translations

22 translations across 11 languages.

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Bulgarian

3 entries
  • ки́ста noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)
  • 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)

Dutch

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

Finnish

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

German

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

Greek

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

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

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

Irish

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

Japanese

1 entries
  • 水疱 noun (anatomy: small sac or cyst)

Romanian

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

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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