vesical
Americanadjective
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of or relating to a vesica or bladder, especially the urinary bladder.
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resembling a bladder, as in shape or form; elliptical.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of vesical
1790–1800; < Medieval Latin vēsīcālis, equivalent to Latin vēsīc ( a ) bladder + -ālis -al 1
Example Sentences
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There may be gastric crises that recall those of tabes, and there may be vesical and rectal crises of a similar nature.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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
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.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Mistaking the properties of the plant it is given for vesical calculus which, if composed of oxalates, would be increased instead of diminished by the treatment.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Patients suffering from vesical calculus are always constipated, and the dysuria may increase to the degree called furia, a condition not without some danger.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
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