bladder
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Explainer video about the human urinary bladder
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English bladdre, bleddre, bladder, bledder, from Old English blæddre, a variant of blǣdre, blēdre (“blister, bladder”), from Proto-West Germanic *blādrā, from Proto-Germanic *blēdrǭ, *bladrǭ (“blister, bladder”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈblædə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈblædɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Noun
bladder (plural bladders)
- (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
- Synonym: vesica
- (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
- Synonym: vesica
- (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
- The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
- A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.
- (figurative) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- 1711, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, “Sensus Communis”, in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times:
- to swim with bladders of philosophy
Hypernyms
- urogenital sinus - embryological precursor
Derived terms
- air bladder
- bald as a bladder of lard
- bashful bladder
- bladderball
- bladder campion
- bladder cancer
- bladder cherry
- bladder cicada
- bladder desperation
- bladdered
- bladderet
- bladder fern
- bladderful
- bladder infection
- bladderless
- bladderlike
- bladdernut
- bladderpod
- bladder senna
- bladderworm
- bladder worm
- bladderwort
- bladder wrack
- bladderwrack
- bladdery
- cackle bladder
- cackle-bladder
- gallbladder
- gall bladder
- gas bladder
- megabladder
- neobladder
- nonbladder
- overactive bladder
- painful bladder syndrome
- shy bladder
- swim-bladder
- swim bladder
- urinary bladder
Translations
flexible sac in zoology
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urinary bladder — see urinary bladder
hollow inflatable organ in botany
inflatable bag inside a ball
Verb
bladder (third-person singular simple present bladders, present participle bladdering, simple past and past participle bladdered)
- To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
- 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death:
- bladder'd up with pride of his own mcrit
- (transitive) To store or put up in bladders.
- bladdered lard
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch blader: see blaar.
Pronunciation
Noun
bladder f or m (plural bladders, diminutive bladdertje n)
- blister, particularly of paint
Middle English
Noun
bladder
- Alternative form of bladdre