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bladder

[ blad-er ]

noun

  1. Anatomy, Zoology.
    1. a membranous sac or organ serving as a receptacle for a fluid or air.
  2. Pathology. a vesicle, blister, cyst, etc., filled with fluid or air.
  3. Botany. an air-filled sac or float, as in certain seaweeds.
  4. something resembling a bladder, as the inflatable lining of a football or basketball.
  5. an air-filled sac, usually made to resemble a club, used for beatings in low comedy, vaudeville, or the like.


bladder

/ ˈ²ú±ôæ»åÉ™ /

noun

  1. anatomy a distensible membranous sac, usually containing liquid or gas, esp the urinary bladder vesical
  2. an inflatable part of something
  3. a blister, cyst, vesicle, etc, usually filled with fluid
  4. a hollow vesicular or saclike part or organ in certain plants, such as the bladderwort or bladderwrack
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bladder

/ ²ú±ôă»å′ə°ù /

  1. A sac-shaped muscular organ that stores the urine secreted by the kidneys, found in all vertebrates except birds and the monotremes. In mammals, urine is carried from the kidneys to the bladder by the ureters and is later discharged from the body through the urethra.
  2. An air bladder.

bladder

  1. A stretchable saclike structure in the body that holds fluids . The term is used most often to refer to the urinary bladder , which is part of the excretory system . Another kind of bladder is the gallbladder .
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ²ú±ô²¹»å»å±ð°ù²â, adjective
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²ú±ô²¹»åd±ð°ù·±ô±ð²õ²õ adjective
  • ²ú±ô²¹»åd±ð°ù·±ô¾±°ì±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bladder1

before 900; Middle English; Old English blÇ£ddre, ²ú±ôÇ£»å°ù±ð bladder, blister, pimple; cognate with Old Norse ²ú±ôÄå³Ù³ó°ù²¹, dialectal Dutch bladder, German Blatter; akin to blow 2
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bladder1

Old English ²ú±ôÇ£»å°ù±ð
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"My dad went down with kidney cancer followed by bladder cancer."

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Toné! with Raphael Saadiq and Timothy Christian Riley, died after a private battle with bladder cancer.

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Faye works for the NHS but also has a private clinic and said the people coming through her door are "embarrassed" by their bladder weakness.

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However, when misused, it can cause serious and sometimes permanent damage to the bladder.

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Then came the news: There was a grapefruit-sized tumor in her toddler’s bladder.

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