combining form, on Greek models, of VESICULA, occurring in a few terms referring to vesicles in connection with some part or thing denoted by the second element, as vesiculo-bronchial, -spinal, -tympanitic.
1885. Encycl. Brit., XIX. 35/2. Ano-spinal and vesiculo-spinal centres.
1886. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., II. 82/1. In emphysema a characteristic sound, somewhat less resonant, is heard, which is called vesiculo-tympanitic.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 98. Mingled with this diminished dulness and with the ‘vesiculo-bronchial’ breathing,… may be heard an adventitious murmur.
