vesical

[ves-i-kuhl]

adjective

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

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

ˈvesical

/ ˈvɛsɪkəl /

adjective

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

Other Word Forms

• postvesical adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ˈvesical¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

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The urine is scanty and high colored; there is sometimes scalding in urination and vesical tenesmus, and at the acme of the fever traces of albumen may be detected.

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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.

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The locality, size, and color of vesical calculi have been demonstrated in my own experience.

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

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