| vesicular rickettsiosis | A mild infectious disease first observed in new york city, caused by rickettsia akari, transmitted from its mouse host by chigger or adult mite bites. There is fever, a dark spot that becomes a small ulcer at the site of the bite, swollen glands (lymphadenopathy) in that region, and a raised blistery (vesicular) rash. Also known as rickettsialpox. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| vesicular stomatitis | A vesicular disease of horses, cattle, swine, and occasionally man caused by a vesiculovirus (vesicular stomatitis virus); in horses and cattle the disease usually causes mouth vesicles which, in cattle, cannot be differentiated clinically from those of foot-and-mouth disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular stomatitis virus | <virology> Rhabdovirus causing the disease soremouth in cattle. Widely used as a laboratory tool especially in studies on the spike glycoprotein as a model for the synthesis, post translational modification and export of membrane proteins. (18 Nov 1997) |
| vesicular stomatitis-indiana virus | The type species of vesiculovirus causing a disease symptomatically similar to foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, horses, and pigs. It may be transmitted to other species including humans, where it causes influenza-like symptoms. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vesicular transport | <cell biology> Process of transport of material across an epithelium by uptake on one face into a coated vesicle, which may then be sorted through the trans Golgi network and transported to the opposite face in another set of vesicles. (17 Mar 1998) |
| vesicular venous plexus | A plexus of veins around the fundus and sides of the bladder. Synonym: plexus venosus vesicalis, venous plexus of bladder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicularia | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems. Origin: NL. See Vesicle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vesiculase | <enzyme> Potentiating factor from coagulating glands in rat semen coagulation; mechanism may involve covalent joining of basic protein monomers by transamidase reactions Registry number: EC 2.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| vesiculata | <zoology> The campanularian medusae. Origin: NL. See Vesicle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vesiculate | 1. To become vesicular. Synonym: vesicular. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesiculated | 1. Composed of or relating to small, saclike bodies. 2. Pertaining to or made up of vesicles on the skin. Origin: L. Vesicula = a little bladder (18 Nov 1997) |
| vesiculation | <geology> The state of containing vesicles, or the process by which vesicles are formed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vesiculectomy | Resection of a portion or all of each of the seminal vesicles. Origin: L. Vesicula, vesicle, + G. Ektome, excision (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesiculiform | Resembling a vesicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesiculin | <protein> Highly acidic protein (10 kD) found in synaptic vesicles. (18 Nov 1997) |