bladder
IPA: bɫˈædɝ
noun
- (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
- (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
- (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.
verb
- To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
- (transitive) To store or put up in bladders.
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Examples of "bladder" in Sentences
- It seems that my baby believes my bladder is an excellent trampoline.
- After your child urinates and the bladder is empty the catheter will be removed.
- Once the bladder is full, we will ask your child to urinate while still on the table.
- Once the bladder is full, the radiologist will ask your child to urinate while still on the table.
- T. MCNAMARA: If she drank a cup of water or a cup of juice, her bladder's pressure were at such an intense point that she would have what they call a bladder burst.
- Once the child's bladder is full and he or she can no longer hold urine in, the child will void into a special uroflow chair to evaluate the urine flow rate and the time needed to empty the bladder.
- He can also rattle off random details about every microphone, mini-disc recorder or flash recorder on the market, even down to the subtlies of what kind of bladder is in the mic and how that causes some specific interaction with your cable, or why you might be getting a hum from your Maranz 660.
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