VESICA
\vˈɛsɪkə], \vˈɛsɪkə], \v_ˈɛ_s_ɪ_k_ə]\
Definitions of VESICA
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
By Princeton University
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a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
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v[=e]-s[=i]'ka, n. (anat.) a bladder, sac, esp. the urinary bladder:--pl. VESICÆ (v[=e]-s[=i]'s[=e]).--adjs. VES'ICAL, of or pertaining to a vesica; VES'ICANT, blistering.--n. a substance that vesicates or raises blisters.--v.t. VES'IC[=A]TE, to raise blisters on:--pr.p. ves'ic[=a]ting; pa.p. ves'ic[=a]ted.--ns. VESIC[=A]'TION, the act or process of raising blisters on the skin; VES'IC[=A]TORY (same as VESICANT); VES'ICLE, a small bladder or blister: a small cavity in an animal body; (bot.) a bladder-like cell; V[=E]SIC'[=U]LA, a vesicle.--adj. V[=E]SIC'ULAR.--adv. V[=E]SIC'[=U]LARLY.--n. V[=E]SIC[=U]L[=A]'TION, formation of vesicles.--adjs. V[=E]SIC[=U]LIF'EROUS, bearing vesicles; V[=E]SIC'[=U]LIFORM; V[=E]SIC'[=U]LOSE, V[=E]SIC'[=U]LOUS, V[=E]SIC'[=U]L[=A]TE, pertaining to or full of vesicles: full of interstices: having little glands on the surface.--VESICA PISCIS (a fish's bladder), a symbol of Christ, an oval aureole surrounding the entire upright figure, supposed to contain an allusion to the sacred Christian emblem, the ichthys. [L., bladder.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Alexander Duane
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