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Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc..

Catheter :: Catheter (n.) The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine..

Air Bladder :: Air bladder () A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

Vesicovaginal :: Vesicovaginal (a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

Vesical :: Vesical (a.) Of or pertaining to the bladder.

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

Lithotripsy :: Lithotripsy (n.) The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.

Coenurus :: Coenurus (n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid..

Behn :: Behn (n.) The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata..

Lithotrity :: Lithotrity (n.) The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.

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..

Trigone :: Trigone (n.) A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra..

Sturiones :: Sturgeon (n.) Any one of numerous species of large cartilaginous ganoid fishes belonging to Acipenser and allied genera of the family Acipenseridae. They run up rivers to spawn, and are common on the coasts and in the large rivers and lakes of North America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder..

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

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..

Encysted :: Encysted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor..

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..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound..

Physostomous :: Physostomous (a.) Having a duct to the air bladder.

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

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