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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..

Searcher :: Searcher (n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc..

Madder :: Madder (n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous..

Adder :: Adder (n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers..

Step :: Step (v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder..

Lithoclast :: Lithoclast (n.) An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

Henware :: Henware (n.) A coarse, blackish seaweed. See Badderlocks..

Water Adder :: Water adder () The water moccasin.

Rubiretin :: Rubiretin (n.) One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid..

Munjistin :: Munjistin (n.) An orange-red coloring substance resembling alizarin, found in the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia munjista)..

Edder :: Edder (n.) An adder or serpent.

Round :: Round (n.) The step of a ladder; a rundle or rung; also, a crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair..

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

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..

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

Sollar :: Sollar (n.) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft..

Stepmother :: Stepladder (n.) A portable set of steps.

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..

Echelon :: Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance..

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

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