a. [ad. mod.L. vesical-is, f. L. vēsīca: see prec. and -AL. So F. vésical (16th cent.), Pg. vesical, It. vessicale.]
1. Of or pertaining to, formed in, the urinary bladder.
1797. Phil. Trans., LXXXVIII. 45. The specimen…, which was said to be a vesical calculus of a horse.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem., Org., 711. Urine … always contains a little vesical mucus, together with some other ill-defined azotised principles.
b. spec. in Anat. of various appendages of the bladder (see quots.).
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 511. Vesical Nerves. These nerves vary in number, and are irregularly interlaced.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 388/2. The pelvic and vesical fasciæ.
1840. E. Wilson, Anat. Vade M. (1842), 348. The vesical and prostatic plexus is an important plexus of veins which surrounds the neck and base of the bladder and prostate gland.
1881. Mivart, Cat, 213. Amongst them we have the superior vesical [branch], which goes to the side of the bladder.
c. Path. Affecting or occurring in the urinary bladder.
1846. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., II. 183. When mucus is separated in large quantity (as in vesical catarrh).
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 61. A violent cough and vesical irritation.
1876. Gross, Dis. Bladder, etc., 82. Of the causes of vesical neuralgia very little is known.
1888. Doughty, Arabia Deserta, I. 527. I found the women lying on the ground far gone in a vesical disease.
2. Having the form of a vesica; pointedly oval.
1865. Reader, No. 121. 462/2. Seals … of vesical shape.
1880. Archæol. Cant. XIII. 72. The circular boss or knob, and the elliptical or vesical shape, are seen upon the jewels in the cover of the celebrated Durham Gospels of St. Cuthbert.
