Vesical

Vesical (Latin: vesica) refers to the urinary bladder and its relevant and nearby structures and functions, including:

• the vesical arteries, which provide the urinary bladder with oxygenated blood
  • Superior vesical artery
    • Middle vesical artery
  • Inferior vesical artery
• the vesical venous plexus, the network of veins that collects deoxygenated blood from the urinary bladder
• the vesical veins, tributaries of the internal iliac veins, which drain the vesical venous plexus
• the vesical nervous plexus, a nerve network in the anterior pelvis
• the vesico-uterine pouch (or vesico-uterine excavation), a sac in the female pelvis in between the uterus and the urinary bladder
• Vesical tenesmus, difficulty urinating