Bladder
['blædə] or ['blædɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a bag that fills with air.
(noun.) a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas).
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Definition
(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.
(n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
(n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
(n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
(v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
(v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
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Definition
n. a thin bag distended with liquid or air: the receptacle for the urine.—adjs. Bladd′ered Bladd′ery swollen like a bladder.—n. Bladd′erwort a genus of slender aquatic plants the leaves floating.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in your business if you are not careful of your health and the way you spend your energies. To see children blowing up bladders, foretells your expectations will fail to give you much comfort.
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Examples
- In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Stone in the bladder may be discovered, and the condition and movements of the heart and lungs ascertained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The operation of lithotrity, for removing stone from the bladder by crushing the stone, was introduced by Civiale, 1817-1824, who devised successful instruments and modes of using them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For instance, a swim-bladder has apparently been converted into an air-breathing lung. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The endoscope, for looking into the urethra, and the cystoscope, for looking into the bladder, are other useful instruments of the modern practitioner. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Meanwhile a great plague swept the world, and at his death this renewed and expanded empire of his crumpled up again like a blown-out bladder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The swim-bladder has, also, been worked in as an accessory to the auditory organs of certain fishes. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- When presently his father died, it collapsed like a pricked bladder. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The swimming-bladders or sounds, besides being highly nutritious, supply, if rightly prepared, isinglass equal to the best of that which is brought from Russia. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I do not know how far corks or bladders may be useful in learning to swim, having never seen much trial of them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The bladders of animals suggested it, and their skins were substituted for the bladders. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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