a. [f. as VESICULATE a. + -ED.]
1. Having or full of small cavities or air-cells.
1703. Phil. Trans., XXIII. 1390. Frogs, Toads, Snakes,… that have their Lungs Vesicated, as well as Vesiculated. Ibid. (1774), LXIV. 213. Any air, which gets beyond the vesiculated lungs themselves.
1886. A. H. Church, Food Grains Ind., 33. Its [sc. wheat’s] admirable appropriateness for the making of a light vesiculated bread.
2. Of the nature of a vesicle or vesicula.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xxxvii. 565. A threatening boil may often be aborted by touching the little initial itching or vesiculated papule with some penetrating antiseptic.
3. Path. Covered with vesicles.
a. 1858. Bright, Abdominal Tumours (1860), 210. They both presented most extreme specimens of the vesiculated kidney.
