Bladder
Definition of Bladder
Blad´der Pronunciation: blăd´dẽr n. | 1. | | | 1. | (Anat.) 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. | | 2. | Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. | | 3. | (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp. | | 4. | Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. | v. t. | 1. | To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. | | 2. | To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard. |
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air bubble, bag, ball, balloon, bleb, blob, blood blister, boll, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulla, cap and bells, coxcomb, ellipsoid, fever blister, fob, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, knob, knot, motley, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pocket, poke, prolate spheroid, rondure, sack, slapstick, soap bubble, sock, sphere, spheroid, spherule
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