A vesicle

Vesicles or vesicles?

In the world of modern dermatology, very strange situations arise. For example, if you write the word “vesicles” on the Internet, many links will immediately close, informing you that the word is spelled with the letter “L”. Is this a typo, or is there some rule that we just don’t know?

It turns out there is. In English, this word is correctly written as “Vesicles” (vesicles), and not as the well-known “Vesikules” (vesicles), which is considered to be the genitive case form of the word “vesicle” (Latin vesicula) - bubble. And there are actually good reasons for this.

To understand this, we must turn to Latin and its origins. This is a modern medical language in which there were the terms “vésica” - bubble, “veśiculae” - masculine plural (vesicles), as well as the phrases “vēsicalis” - vesical, and “věsicians” - person