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bladder definition

blad·der (blad′ər)

noun

  1. 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
  2. a thing resembling such a bag, as the inflatable rubber bag inside the leather cover of a football
    1. an inflated covering of certain fruits
    2. an air sac, as in some water plants

Etymology: ME bladre < OE blæddre < IE *bhlē-: see blast

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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bladder Usage Examples

Possessives

  • pig: The first football was a pig's bladder filled with water.

Converse of object

  • distend: For example, spasticity can be aggravated by sensory stimulation from a pressure sore or a distended bladder or rectum.

Adjective modifier

  • overactive: There's help available 09/09/05 One in five men and women across the UK are forced to live with overactive bladders.

Modifies a noun

  • washout: The ward staff will give you a supply of syringes for the bladder washouts to take home.

Noun used with modifier

  • gall: The gall bladder is a storage site for bile.
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bladder quotes

And nowe in the winter, when men kill the fat swine They get the bladder and blow it great and thin, With many beans and peason put within: It ratleth, soundeth, and shineth clere and fayre While it is throwen and caste up in the ayre, Each one contendeth and hath a great delite With foote and with hands the bladder for to smite; If it fall to grounde, they lifte it up agayne, But this waye to labour they count in no payne.

-Anonymous

I challenge all the men alive To say they e'er were gladder, Than boys all striving, Who should kick most wind out of the bladder.

-Anonymous

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

-Kirkland, (Joseph) Lane

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