External to this is another vesica embracing the plinth-course (see plan).
The length of the vesica is approximately 64 feet, and its points touch the outer faces of the end walls.
Each vesicacontains a rhombus of two equilateral triangles.
In sloughing ulcer of the bladder it is used to separate the lips of the perineal wound: Quod si antequam vesica purgata est orae se glutinarunt, dolorque et inflammatio redierunt, vulnus digitis vel averso specillo diducendum est (VII.
Some of the large flat implements from the valley of the Somme are more of the pointed oval orvesica piscis form, than lozenge-shaped.
Those sharp or but slightly rounded at the sides, and presenting a pointed oval or vesica piscis in section.
At the part where the edge of the celts commences, the section is of course a vesica piscis.
I do not think the work here is quite as good as that at Leon, though the filling in of the tympanum with a well-marked vesica in the centre, and four rows of subjects divided by well-defined horizontal lines, is uncommonly good.
The north doorway is of the same age as the early part of the church, and has a figure of our Lord within a vesica in the tympanum, and the Last Supper carved on a pendant below it.
Numerous illustrations of these and other pictures of the Middle Ages, as also diagrams of the properties of the Vesica Piscis, can be seen in the volume I have already referred to dealing fully with this subject.
Now let me try to describe the wonderful properties of the Vesica Piscis, so that you may understand the mystery which shrouded it in the minds of those Mediæval builders.
Every Cathedral has its Vesica Piscis, often of enormous dimensions.
In the centre is the Madonna and Child enthroned in a vesica above six saints, and surrounded by the symbols of the Evangelists.
Christ enthroned in a vesica is supported by two angels; below is the Madonna as orante, surrounded by the Apostles.
Above are half-lengths of the Madonna and Child in a vesica starred with cherubs; on the right, SS.
One is a Carpaccio in tempera on canvas, a "Madonna auxilium Christianorum," with the Child in a vesica on her breast, and S.
In the sky is a pretty Madonna and Child in a vesica surrounded by angels.
In modern Christian art this symbol is called vesica piscis, and is sometimes surrounded with rays.
Figure 136 is the vesica piscis, or fish's bladder; the emblem of woman and of the virgin, as may be seen in the two following woodcuts.
Its form is that of the vesica piscis, one of the most common emblems of the yoni.
In this figure the cross is made by the intersection of two ovals, each a vesica piscis, an emblem of the yoni.
A myrtle was also a type, but of the female, because its leaf is a close representation of the vesica piscis.
Within the vesica piscis, artists usually represent the virgin herself, with or without the child; in the figure before us the child takes her place.
The space between the circumference and the vesica is occupied on each side by two angels, with expanded wings, those above issuing from waves, those below kneeling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vesica" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anatomy; botany; capsule; halo; receptacle
