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bladder
[ blad-er ]
noun
- Anatomy, Zoology.
- a membranous sac or organ serving as a receptacle for a fluid or air.
- Pathology. a vesicle, blister, cyst, etc., filled with fluid or air.
- Botany. an air-filled sac or float, as in certain seaweeds.
- something resembling a bladder, as the inflatable lining of a football or basketball.
- an air-filled sac, usually made to resemble a club, used for beatings in low comedy, vaudeville, or the like.
bladder
/ ˈblædə /
noun
- anatomy a distensible membranous sac, usually containing liquid or gas, esp the urinary bladder vesical
- an inflatable part of something
- a blister, cyst, vesicle, etc, usually filled with fluid
- a hollow vesicular or saclike part or organ in certain plants, such as the bladderwort or bladderwrack
bladder
/ blăd′ər /
- A sac-shaped muscular organ that stores the urine secreted by the kidneys, found in all vertebrates except birds and the monotremes. In mammals, urine is carried from the kidneys to the bladder by the ureters and is later discharged from the body through the urethra.
- An air bladder.
bladder
- A stretchable saclike structure in the body that holds fluids . The term is used most often to refer to the urinary bladder , which is part of the excretory system . Another kind of bladder is the gallbladder .
Derived Forms
- ˈbladdery, adjective
Other Words From
- bladder·less adjective
- bladder·like adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of bladder1
Example Sentences
She lost control of her bladder as she crouched in a corner, shaking, and unable to move her body due to the shock.
The gasbag is in two parts—a tough shell and a gastight bladder, the latter being designed to be discarded if it leaks.
Kerri Kasem said in court Friday that her father was suffering from bedsores and lung and bladder infections.
Prick the bladder with a needle every so often,” she advises sagely, “to keep it from exploding.
“My dog has just had to learn good bladder and bowel control,” he jokes.
Their usual source is the deeper layers of the urinary tract, especially of the bladder.
Considerable hemorrhages from the bladder may occur in vesical calculus, tuberculosis, and newgrowths.
On the way we were greatly excited to see the bladder of an indicator net smoking.
At home all the morning, being by the cold weather, which for these two days has been frost, in some pain in my bladder.
In less than two minutes the cranium of Mark Antony Figgins was as smooth and destitute of hair as a bladder of lard.
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