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Vesica

//ˈvɛsɪkə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
  2. 2
    a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) wordnet
  3. 3
    The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

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