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  • noun Plural form of vesica.

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Examples

  • I noticed soft lines, circles, vesicae, and even vines! along with the more masculine hard lines, rectangles, and spears *rolls eyes*.

    Tourist on Earth | Mind on Fire 2006

  • In Fig. 2 it appears as the uvula vesicae, a. In Fig. 3 the part a is increased, and under the name now of third lobe is seen to contract and bend upwards the prostatic canal.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The part K, which is here represented as projecting from the floor of the bladder, near its neck, is named the "uvula vesicae," (Lieutaud.)

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • And the same may be said of the fibres, which surrounding the vesical orifice, are supposed to act as the "sphincter vesicae."

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • There was ectopia vesicae and prolapse of the intestine at the umbilicus; the right kidney was elongated; the right vas deferens opened into the ureter.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Dioscorides tells us: _Cicadæ, quae inassatae manduntur, vesicae doloribus prosunt_.

    Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Pasquil wrote, Vleus vesicae renum dolor in pene scirrus.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • It projects inside the urinary bladder forming "uvula vesicae" just behind the internal urethral meatus.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows ovary2009 2009

  • _in ano_, or some such other secret disease, as the common conuersant can hardly discouer, and the Phisition either not speedily heale, or not honestly bewray? of which infirmities the scoffing _Pasquil_ wrote, _Vleus vesicae renum dolor in peno scirrus_.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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