bladder


Definition: Meaning of, bladder in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈbladə /

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bladder bladders
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  1. the organ in your body that holds URINE (= waste liquid) until it is passed out of your body
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  2. a bag of skin, leather, or rubber, for example inside a football, that can be filled with air or liquid
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bladder used in phrases

  • air bladder (noun)
    1. an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
  • bladder campion (noun)
    1. perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx
    2. bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
  • bladder cherry (noun)
    1. old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
  • bladder disorder (noun)
    1. a disorder of the urinary bladder
  • bladder fern (noun)
    1. any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori
  • bladder fucus (noun)
    1. a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
  • bladder ketmia (noun)
    1. annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America
  • bladder senna (noun)
    1. yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food
  • bladder sphincter (noun)
    1. the sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder; made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening
  • bladder stone (noun)
    1. a calculus formed in the bladder
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