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A bladder. Vesica piscis. Etym: [L., dish bladder.] (Eccl. Art) 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.

Of or pertaining to the bladder. Dunglison.

A vesicatory.

To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.

The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.

A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.

Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the bladder.

nts (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods. -- Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods. -- Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods. -- Bladder worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh or other part…

containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

A beetle (Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria), having an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blist…

Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).

on to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory.

A combining form indicating connection with, or relation to, the rectum; as, recto-vesical.

, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum. Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.