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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.
- Bladder - n. - Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
- Bladder - n. - A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
- Bladder - n. - Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- Bladder - v. t. - To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
- Bladder - v. t. - To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
- Bladdered - imp. & p. p. - of Bladder
- Bladdering - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Bladder
- 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.
- Bladdery - a. - Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.
- Lithiasis - n. - The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages.
- Football - n. - An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
- Hydatid - n. - A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the Vocabulary.
- Sound - n. - Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.
- Lithotome - n. - An instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone.
- Vesicouterine - a. - Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.
- Bladder - v. t. - To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
- Vesicovaginal - a. - Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.
- Blain - n. - A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
- Cysticercus - n. - The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).
- Cystocele - n. - Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
- Ureter - n. - The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.
- Physostomi - n. pl. - An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.
- Physoclisti - n. pl. - An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no opening.
- Knapbottle - n. - The bladder campion (Silene inflata).
- Vesicoprostatic - a. - Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.
- Measles - n. - The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
- Swell - v. i. - To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
- Gallstone - n. - A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
- Air bladder - - A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.
- Behn - n. - The Cucubalus behen, or bladder campion, now called Silene inflata.
- Lithic - a. - Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.
- Lithotrity - n. - The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.
- Lithotripsy - n. - The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.
- Puff - v. t. - To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.