| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb bladder.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bladder) | 1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.[Websters]. 2. To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: bladdering, bladdered, bladders, bladderer, bladderers, bladderingly and bladderedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BLADDERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: bladder
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: 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. 2: To see children blowing up bladders, foretells your expectations will fail to give you much comfort. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Health | The organ that stores urine. (references) | ||
| Industry | 1: A local lifting of a surface film (paint, varnish etc) owing to pressure there from beneath, generally due to excessive moisture in the wood. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: An expandable device of folded flexible material to cover and protect an moving part. Source: European Union. (references) | 3: A raised area on the surface of a moulding caused by the pressure of gases inside it on its incompletely hardened surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Mechanical Engineering | Fluid tank made of flexible material, especially one not forming part of airframe. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Occupations | Heavy-walled rubber cylinder used in a curing press to expand uncured tires into the recesses of the tire mold. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bladder
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Air bladder | 1: 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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | |||
| 3: An air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Bladder campion | 1: A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflated calyx. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 3: Bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Bladder cancer | Bladder cancer refers to any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder. The image to the right shows a papillary cell tumor, the most common type of bladder cancer. (references) | ||
| Bladder cherry | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bladder disorder | A disorder of the urinary bladder. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bladder exstrophy | Bladder exstropy, more properly, the exstrophy-epispadias complex is a rare congenital anomaly occurring once every 40-50,000 live births with a 2:1 male:female ratio. The diagnosis involves a spectrum of anomalies of the lower abdominal wall, bladder, anterior bony pelvis, and external genitalia. Treatment is with surgical correction of the defect, but patients can still have long term issues with urinary tract infections and sexual dysfunction. (references) | ||
| Bladder fern | Any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bladder fucus | A common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bladder ketmia | Annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bladder nut | A genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Bladder pod | (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Bladder senna | 1: (Bot.) See under Bladder . Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Bladder sphincter | The sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder; made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bladder stone | A calculus formed in the bladder. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Bladder tree | (Bot.), a genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Bladder worm | 1: (Zo["o]l.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (T[ae]nia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Bladder wrack | (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Bladder wrack | Bladder wrack is a seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was the original source of iodine, discovered in 1812, and was used extensively to treat goiter, a swelling of the thyroid gland related to iodine deficiency. In the 1860s, it was claimed that bladder wrack, as a thyroid stimulant, could counter obesity by increasing the metabolic rate and, since then, it has been featured in numerous weight-loss remedies. (references) | ||
| Flaccid bladder | 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. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Gall bladder | A muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Gall Bladder (Fu) | As distinct from the Western medical concept of Gall Bladder, this concept from Traditional Chinese Medicine is more a way of describing a set of interrelated parts than an anatomical organ. (references) | ||
| Gas bladder | The gas bladder (also fish maw, less accurately swim bladder or air bladder) is an internal organ that contributes to the ability of a fish to control its buoyancy, and thus to stay at the current water depth, ascend, or descend without having to waste energy in swimming. (references) | ||
| Neurogenic bladder | A urinary bladder disorder caused by a lesion in the nervous system. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Sensitive bladder | Sensitive Bladder Syndrome is a medical condition that describes a too-frequent sensation of needing to urinate. (references) | ||
| Spastic bladder | 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. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Swim bladder | 1: An air bladder of a fish. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: An air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Urinary bladder | A membranous sac for temporary retention of urine. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bladder
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Air bladder | Biology & Biotechnology | A sac filled with air or other gases lying beneath the backbone and either attached or not to the walls of the body cavity; a membranous gas filled sac in the upper part of the body cavity. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Air bladder | Fisheries | AKA "Swim bladder": an air-filled structure used by fish to maintain buoyancy, and, in some species, to aid in respiration. (references) | |
| Bladder bag | Mining | A collapsible backpack portable sprayer made of neoprene or high-strength nylon fabric fitted with a pump. (See also Backpack Pump.). (references) | |
| Bladder Calculi | Health | Calculi of the urinary bladder; also known as vesical calculi or bladder stones, and cystoliths. (references) | |
| Bladder Exstrophy | Health | Congenital eversion of the urinary bladder. It is characterized by the absence of a portion of the lower abdominal wall and the anterior vesical wall, with eversion of the posterior vesical wall through the deficit. (references) | |
| Bladder Fistula | Health | An abnormal passage in the bladder or between the bladder and any surrounding organ. (references) | |
| Bladder Neoplasms | Health | Cancer or tumors of the bladder. (references) | |
| Bladder pump | Mining | A positive displacement pump in which compressed air is forced down an input column to squeeze a water-filled bladder, thereby forcing water up a discharge column to the ground surface. The bladder refills by gravity flow at the end of each lifting cycle, because the bladder unit is belowthe static water lever. See:positive displacement pump. (references) | |
| Bladder tank | Mechanical Engineering | Fluid tank made of flexible material, especially one not forming part of airframe. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Overactive bladder | Health | 1: Urinary frequency--defined for this condition as urination more than seven times a day or more than twice at night. (references) | |
| 2: Urinary urgency. (references) | |||
| 3: A condition in which the patient experiences two or all three of the following conditions:. (references) | |||
| 4: Urge incontinence. (references) | |||
| Painful bladder syndrome | Health | Another name for interstitial cystitis. (references) | |
| Stage I bladder cancer | Health | Cancer cells have spread into the inner lining of the bladder but have not spread to the muscular wall of the bladder. (references) | |
| Stage II bladder cancer | Health | Cancer cells have spread to the muscular wall of the bladder. (references) | |
| Stage III bladder cancer | Health | Cancer cells have spread throughout the muscular wall of the bladder, to the layer of tissue surrounding the bladder, and/or to the nearby reproductive organs. (references) | |
| Swim bladder | Fisheries | A sac inside the salmon's body by which the fish can control buoyancy. (references) | |
| Urinary bladder | Medicine | The sac situated in the anterior part of the pelvis which receives the ureters posteriorly, and from which the urethra arises. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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