urinary bladders

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of urinary bladder.
  urinary bladder

  noun

  a distensible, muscular and membranous sac, in which the urine is retained until it is discharged from the body.

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urinary bladders

The general use of this urinary absorption to the animal œconomy is evinced from the urinary bladders of fish, which would otherwise be unnecessary.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

This seems to be the purpose of the urinary bladders of fish, as otherwise such a receptacle for the urine could have been of no use to an animal immersed in water.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

For some time after a visit to the springs, their urinary bladders are distended with fluid, which is said gradually to decrease in volume, and to become less pure.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

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