Bladder

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Anatomy Any of various distensible membranous sacs, such as the urinary bladder or the swim bladder, that serve as receptacles for fluid or gas.
  • n. An item resembling one of the membranous sacs in animals: the bladder of a football.
  • n. Botany Any of various hollow or inflated saclike organs or structures, such as the floats of certain seaweeds or the specialized traps of bladderworts.
  • n. Pathology A blister, pustule, or cyst filled with fluid or air; a vesicle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
  • n. Specifically, the urinary bladder.
  • n. A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
  • n. The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
  • n. A sealed, plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
  • v. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
  • v. To store or put up in bladders.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; ; -- 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. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
  • v. To put up in bladders.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A thin, elastic, highly distensible and contractile muscular and membranous sac forming that portion of the urinary passages in which urine, constantly secreted by the kidneys, is retained until it is discharged from the body.
  • n. Any similar receptacle, sac, or vesicle, commonly distinguished by a qualifying prefix. See air-bladder, brain-bladder, gall-bladder, swim-bladder.
  • n. Any vesicle, blister, bleb, blain, or pustule containing fluid or air.
  • n. In botany: A hollow membranous appendage on the leaves of Utricularia, filled with air and floating the plant.
  • n. A cellular expansion of the substance of many algæ filled with air. See cut under air-cell.
  • n. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound: as, “bladders of philosophy,”
  • To put up in a bladder: as, bladdered lard.
  • To puff up; fill, as with wind.
  • n. A membranous inflated fruit, as that of Kœlreuteria or the pericarp of Physalis.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
  • n. a bag that fills with air
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bag   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    inflate    vesica    vesicle    cyst    sac    gall    sound   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    adder    ladder    madar    madder    sadder   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prostate    kidney    lung    intestine    urethra    colon    bowel    uterus    spleen    gland