1889 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 581/2The 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. 64Vesico-intestinal Fistula is sometimes met with.
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 933/2The 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. 156Varicose enlargement of the vesico-prostatic plexus of veins was described.
1902 H. W. Stelwagon Treat. Dis. Skin 63The lesions often do not become strictly purulent, but are of a seropurulent character, forming vesicopustules, and when such a feature is a predominant one, the eruption is usually designated *vesicopustular.
1951 Whitby & Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xxiv. 393The viruses of this group..characteristically produce a vesico-pustular eruption.
1876 Gross Dis. Bladder, etc. 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. 400/2When the disease is a *vesico-umbilical fistula, the communication is with the summit of the bladder.
1906 Dorland Med. Dict. (ed. 4) 815/1*Vesico⁓ureteral.
1951 M. Campbell Clin. Pediatric Urol. i. 67Vesico-ureteral reflux also results from obstructions of the lower urinary tract.
1982 Jrnl. Urol. CXXVIII. 774/1Vesicoureteral reflux is a common abnormality occurring in children and a major cause of renal failure in early adult life.
1965 Brit. Jrnl. Urol. XXXVII. 531*Vesico-ureteric reflux may follow operations on the vesico-ureteric junction.
1977 Proc. R.Soc. Med. LXX. 149/2This finding is not necessarily applicable to children with symptomless infection even though infection in these children is accompanied by vesicoureteric reflux in 23% of cases.
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. 943/1There 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. 581/2All 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. 326Vesico-vaginal fistule is an opening between the bladder and vagina.
1889 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 580/2The tear reaches up to, or dissects off the vesico⁓vaginal tissue from the uterus.
ORIGIN: from vesica + -o- .
vesico-
combining form
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin vesica bladder — more at vesica
: of or relating to the urinary bladder and
< vesicoureteral >
< vesicoureteral >
vesico-
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Prefix
- bladder