combining form, on Greek models, of VESICA, occurring in various terms referring to the bladder in connection with some other part of the body denoted by the second element, as vesico-cervical, -intestinal, prostatic, -rectal, etc. (So F. vésico-.)
Various other terms, as vesicocele, vesicoclysis; vesico-abdominal, -pubic, -spinal, etc., appear in recent Dicts.
1889. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VIII. 581/2. The tear, beginning in a rigid os, extends … up the cervix to the *vesico-cervical junction.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 400. *Vesico-intestinal fistulæ sometimes establish a communication between the bladder and the ileum or colon.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg. (1879), II. 64. Vesico-intestinal Fistula is sometimes met with.
1839–47. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., III. 933/2. The veins in the neighbourhood of the prostate gland and of the neck of the bladder … are called the *vesico-prostatic plexus.
1876. Gross, Dis. Bladder, etc., 156. Varicose enlargement of the vesico-prostatic plexus of veins was described. Ibid., 339. *Vesico-Rectal Fistule is between the bladder and rectum, and between the latter tube and the urethra.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 400/2. When the disease is a vesico-umbilical fistula, the communication is with the summit of the bladder.
1885. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., I. 526/2. *Vesico-urethral fissure … is a crack or fissure between the folds of the mucosa, at the point of junction of the urethra and bladder.
1839–47. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., III. 943/1. There are a pair of recto-uterine peritoneal folds in the female and a pair of *vesico-uterine folds.
1889. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VIII. 581/2. All the tissues below may heal, leaving an opening at the upper angle of the tear—a vesico-uterine fistula.
1835–6. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., I. 400/2. *Vesico-vaginal fistulæ are sometimes … the result of the progress of a uterine cancer.
1876. Gross, Dis. Bladder, etc., 326. Vesico-vaginal fistule is an opening between the bladder and vagina.
1889. Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., VIII. 580/2. The tear reaches up to, or dissects off the vesico-vaginal tissue from the uterus.
