Vesical
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Vesical refers to the urinary bladder
and its relevant and nearby structures and functions, including:
Urinary bladder
The urinary bladder is the organ that collects urine excreted by the kidneys before disposal by urination. A hollow muscular, and distensible organ, the bladder sits on the pelvic floor...
and its relevant and nearby structures and functions, including:
- the vesical arteries, which provide the urinary bladder with oxygenated blood
- Superior vesical arterySuperior vesical arteryThe superior vesical artery supplies numerous branches to the upper part of the bladder.From one of these a slender vessel, the artery to the ductus deferens, takes origin and accompanies the duct in its course to the testis, where it anastomoses with the internal spermatic artery.Other branches...
- Middle vesical arteryMiddle vesical arteryThe middle vesical artery, usually a branch of the superior vesical artery, is distributed to the fundus of the bladder and the seminal vesicles....
- Middle vesical artery
- Inferior vesical arteryInferior vesical arteryThe inferior vesical artery is an artery in the pelvis that supplies the lower part of the bladder.-Structure:The inferior vesical artery is a branch of the anterior division of the internal iliac artery. It frequently arises in common with the middle rectal artery, and is distributed to the...
- Superior vesical artery
- the vesical venous plexusVesical venous plexusThe vesical plexus envelops the lower part of the bladder and the base of the prostate and communicates with the pudendal and prostatic plexuses.It is drained, by means of several vesical veins, into the hypogastric veins.-External links:*...
, 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 tenesmusVesical tenesmusVesical tenesmus refers to the feeling of incomplete emptying of the bladder following urination.When the word tenesmus is used without modification, it usually refers to rectal tenesmus....
, difficulty urinating