Vesica

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  • noun. A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gallbladder.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In anatomy, a bladder; a cyst; a sac; especially, the urinary bladder, or urocyst, the permanently pervious part of the allantoic sac.
  • noun. In botany, same as vesile.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A bladder.
  • noun. A glory, or aureole, of oval shape, or composed of two arcs of circles usually represented as surrounding a divine personage. More rarely, an oval composed of two arcs not representing a glory; a solid oval, etc.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
  • noun. The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
  • Word Usage
    "In Latin the mandorla is called the vesica piscis, or fish bladder, another oval shape."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bladder  say  
    variant
    vesicae