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A collector of ships in bottles or a fondness for collecting such objects.

1. In pharmacology, a small cylindrical soluble container enclosing a dose of medicine, or the container itself.
2. A fruit containing seeds that it releases by splitting open when it is dry and mature.
3. A sac containing the spores of a moss or a liverwort.
4. In microbiology, a gelatinous covering that surrounds some microorganisms.
5. A membrane or sac enclosing an organ or body part.
6. A layer of white fibers in the fore brain.
7. A sealed cockpit in an aircraft that can be ejected in an emergency; known as an ejectable cockpit.
8. A very brief summary or expressed in an extremely brief or highly condensed way.
9. A protective seal; such as, the metal, plastic, or wax covering that protects the cork of a wine bottle.

1. Removal of a capsule; such as, around a breast implant.
2. The excision of a capsule; especially, a joint capsule or the capsule of a lens, a joint, or a kidney; also called, decapsulation.

Inflammation of a capsule; such as, a joint capsule (the saclike envelope that encloses the cavity of a synovial joint by attaching to the circumference of the articular end of each involved bone) or lens capsule (elastic sac enclosing the lens of the eye).

Usually a fiberglass-stainless steel capsule (tank) where a "deanimated" body is placed for cryonic storage.

1. To encase in or as if in a capsule.
2. To express in a brief summary; epitomize: headlines that encapsulate the news.
3. To show or to express the main idea or quality of something in a brief way.
4. To completely cover something; especially, so that it will not touch anything else: "The contaminated material should be encapsulated and removed."

Located near or around a renal glomerulus or the external renal capsule.

Pertaining to the pubis and the capsule of the hip joint.

The capsule of the kidney.

Inflammation of the vitreous humor and the elastic capsule that encloses the crystalline lens of the eye.