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vesical, a.|ˈvɛsɪkəl|
[ad. mod.L. vesical-is, f. L. vēsīca: see prec. and -al1. So F. vésical (16th cent.), Pg. vesical, It. vessicale.]
1. Of or pertaining to, formed in, the urinary bladder.
1797Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 45 The specimen.., which was said to be a vesical calculus of a horse. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. 711 Urine..always contains a little vesical mucus, together with some other ill-defined azotised principles.
b. spec. in Anat. of various appendages of the bladder (see quots.).
1831R. Knox Cloquet's Anat. 511 Vesical Nerves. These nerves vary in number, and are irregularly interlaced. 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 388/2 The pelvic and vesical fasciæ. 1840E. Wilson Anat. Vade M. (1842) 348 The vesical and prostatic plexus is an important plexus of veins which surrounds the neck and base of the bladder and prostate gland. 1881Mivart Cat 213 Amongst them we have the superior vesical [branch], which goes to the side of the bladder.
c. Path. Affecting or occurring in the urinary bladder.
1846G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 183 When mucus is separated in large quantity (as in vesical catarrh). 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 61 A violent cough and vesical irritation. 1876Gross Dis. Bladder, etc. 82 Of the causes of vesical neuralgia very little is known. 1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 527, I found the women lying on the ground far gone in a vesical disease.
2. Having the form of a vesica; pointedly oval.
1865Reader No. 121. 462/2 Seals..of vesical shape. 1880Archæol. Cant. XIII. 72 The circular boss or knob, and the elliptical or vesical shape, are seen upon the jewels in the cover of the celebrated Durham Gospels of St. Cuthbert. |