bladder : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
  float; air bladder.
  

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Air" blad`der

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1. (Anat.) An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.
2. A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

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• noun perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx
  Silene uniflora; Silene vulgaris.
  
• noun bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
  evening lychnis; Lychnis alba; white campion; Silene latifolia; white cockle.
  

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• noun Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
  Physalis alkekengi; winter cherry; Chinese lantern plant.
  

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• noun a disorder of the urinary bladder
  

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• noun any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori
  

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• noun a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
  bladderwrack; Fucus vesiculosus; black rockweed; tang.
  

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• noun annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America
  flowers-of-an-hour; black-eyed Susan; Hibiscus trionum; flower-of-an-hour.
  

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• (Bot.), a genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods.

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• (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods.

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• noun yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food
  Colutea arborescens.
  

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• noun the sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder; made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening
  musculus sphincter vesicae.
  

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• noun a calculus formed in the bladder
  cystolith.
  

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• noun encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm
  

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• (Zoöl.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

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• (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods.

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• noun delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems
  fragile fern; brittle fern; Cystopteris fragilis.
  

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• noun North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets
  bulblet fern; berry fern; Cystopteris bulbifera.
  

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• noun a urinary bladder disorder resulting from interruption of the reflex arc normally associated with voiding urine; absence of bladder sensation and over-filling of the bladder and inability to urinate voluntarily
  

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• noun a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion
  gallbladder.
  

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• (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

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• noun fern of rocky mountainous areas of hemisphere
  Cystopteris montana.
  

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• noun a urinary bladder disorder caused by a lesion in the nervous system
  

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• noun a urinary bladder disorder resulting from spinal cord lesion or multiple sclerosis or trauma; absence of bladder sensation and incontinence and interrupted voiding of urine
  

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• noun an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
  float; air bladder.
  

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• an air bladder of a fish.

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• noun a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine
  

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