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A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
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vesica
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: bladder ] [also: vesicae (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vesica \Ve*si"ca\, n. [L.] A bladder. Vesica piscis . [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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder. 2 The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vesica (plural vesicae ) is Latin for "bladder", may refer to:
Usage examples of vesica.
May the Vesica Piscis symbol be a doorway filled with a cornucopia of gifts for each person who uses it.
He had one himself: the vesica piscis symbol of two circles overlapping.
With her thick, black hair caught up in a ponytail, it was easy to see the vesica piscis symbol.
The vesica piscis circles have been dug out of the clay around the altar.
My mother told me that those with the vesica piscis birthmark have different metaphysical talents.
My mother said each sphere had a word plus the vesica piscis sign engraved upon the surface.
The floor was of white, blue and violet tile laid out in the vesica piscis design.
She was grateful that he was going to be her partner, that they would create the Vesica Piscis Foundation and try to help bring peace to a shattered, violent world.
She will have her own army of light energy workers who will fight under her banner, the vesica piscis symbol, for peace.
This then is the compleating of the whole work of our second stone (observe it well) that you take the perfect body, and put it into our water in a glass vesica or body well closed, lest the air get in or the enclosed humidity get out.
The exis fence of the Fish Speakers and especially of their religious and military devotion, can be best explained by the significance qfjjsh a divine life symbol from antiquity Which species became the dominant symbol is disputed According to Fish Speaker legend, the sandtrout so important in Dane history is a relict form of a now-extinct lungfish, but trout are very similar to salmon, and the Legend of the Silver Salmon-a large fish with oracular powers and a reputation for escaping all nets and lures-persisted in Fremen culture despite the absence of water Some investigators believe that the legend may have been imported from Caladan where the appearance of the Golden Carp was said to predict a tome when the planet would be destroyed by a vast flood, and only those who believed in the Golden Carp would survive Yet, as a divine Itfe symbol in many cultures, the Vesica Pisas was an oval figure pointed at .