vesical

American  

[ves-i-kuhl] / ˈvɛs ɪ kəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a vesica or bladder, especially the urinary bladder.

2. resembling a bladder, as in shape or form; elliptical.

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vesical British  

/ ˈvɛsɪkəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a vesica, esp the urinary bladder

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Other Word Forms

• postvesical
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of vesical

1790–1800; < Medieval Latin vēsīcālis, equivalent to Latin vēsīc ( a ) bladder + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

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vesical

Nature, I said to myself, forms calculi by uniting organic elements, by crystallizing them, and by cementing them with vesical mucus.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

The following case is probably the only instance in which the patient, suffering from vesical calculus, tried to crush and break the stone himself.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

A young man, aged twenty-three, applied for treatment of a long array of symptoms, some of which seemed to indicate enlargement of the prostate, and others a vesical catarrh.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

The operations most frequently called for in Mosul are those for “cataract” and vesical stone, but patients come with many other diseases, both surgical and medical.

From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.

The pain was similar to a vesical tenesmus, a pain in the region of the neck of the bladder and prostate gland.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock