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The bladder is defined as a bag in the body to hold urine, or something resembling this bag.
(noun)An example of the bladder is the part of the body that feels full when one needs to urinate.
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See bladder in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a bag consisting of or lined with membranous tissue in the body of many animals, capable of inflation to receive and contain liquids or gases; esp. the urinary bladder in the pelvic cavity, which holds urine flowing from the kidneys
- a thing resembling such a bag, as the inflatable rubber bag inside the leather cover of a football
- an inflated covering of certain fruits
- an air sac, as in some water plants
Origin: ME bladre < OE blæddre < IE *bhlē-: see blast
See bladder in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. Anatomy Any of various distensible membranous sacs, such as the urinary bladder or the swim bladder, that serve as receptacles for fluid or gas.b. An item resembling one of the membranous sacs in animals: the bladder of a football.
- Botany Any of various hollow or inflated saclike organs or structures, such as the floats of certain seaweeds or the specialized traps of bladderworts.
- Pathology A blister, pustule, or cyst filled with fluid or air; a vesicle.
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Origin: Middle English bladdre
Origin: , from Old English blǣdre; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots
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