(in medieval sculpture and painting) an aureole in the shape of a pointed oval
Word origin
C17: from Latin: bladder, sac, blister
Examples of 'vesicae' in a sentence
vesicae
Microstructures of vesicae are described and illustrated.
Oleg Pekarsky 2012, 'Two new species of Pseudohadena Alphéraky, 1889 from Kazakhstan (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae,Xyleninae)', ZooKeyshttp://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=2735. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)