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Isinglass :: Isinglass (n.) A semitransparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish glue..

Bladderwort :: Bladderwort (n.) A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium..

Hepatocystic :: Hepatocystic (a.) Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts..

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..

Bladdering :: Bladdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladde.

Sphincter :: Sphincter (n.) A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder..

Swim :: Swim (n.) The sound, or air bladder, of a fish..

Lithic :: Lithic (n.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.

Cystolithic :: Cystolithic (a.) Relating to stone in the bladder.

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp..

Rot :: Rot (n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2..

Bladdery :: Bladdery (a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder..

Sound :: Sound (n.) The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food..

Knapbottle :: Knapbottle (n.) The bladder campion (Silene inflata).

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..

Cholecystis :: Cholecystis (n.) The gall bladder.

Urinary :: Urinary (a.) Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions..

Exstrophy :: Exstrophy (n.) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder..

Vesiculate :: Vesiculate (a.) Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular..

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..

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