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Definition of bladder

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Bladder (n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air..

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Cystose :: Cystose (a.) Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery..

Cystotomy :: Cystotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus..

Urethra :: Urethra (n.) The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.

Diphtheritic :: Diphtheritic (a.) Having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder..

Carlock :: Carlock (n.) A sort of Russian isinglass, made from the air bladder of the sturgeon, and used in clarifying wine..

Gravel :: Gravel (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom..

Physoclisti :: Physoclisti (n. pl.) An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no opening.

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid..

Gall :: Gall (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder..

Dipnoi :: Dipnoi (n. pl.) A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix..

Vesicoprostatic :: Vesicoprostatic (a.) Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.

Saxifragous :: Saxifragous (a.) Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder..

Cholecystotomy :: Cholecystotomy (n.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone..

Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs..

Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air..

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard..

Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..

Cystic :: Cystic (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder..

Ampullaceous :: Ampullaceous (a.) Like a bottle or inflated bladder; bottle-shaped; swelling.