Definitions for bladder
ˈblæd ərblad·der

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bladder, vesicanoun

   a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

2. bladdernoun

   a bag that fills with air

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bladdernoun

   A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.

2. bladdernoun

   Specifically, the urinary bladder.

3. bladdernoun

   A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.

4. bladdernoun

   The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.

5. bladdernoun

   A sealed, plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask.

6. Etymology: Akin to Old High German platara (German Blatter) and Old Norse blaðra (Danish blære).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bladdernoun

   Etymology: bladdre, Saxon; blader, Dutch.

   1. That vessel in the body which contains the urine.

   The bladder should be made of a membranous substance, and extremely dilatable for receiving and containing the urine, till an opportunity of emptying it. John Ray, on the Creation.

   2. It is often filled with wind, to which allusions are frequently made.

   That huge great body which the giant bore,
   Was vanquish’d quite, and of that monstrous mass
   Was nothing left, but like an empty bladder was. Fairy Q.

   A bladder but moderately filled with air, and strongly tied, being held near the fire, grew exceeding turgid and hard; but afterwards being brought nearer to the fire, it suddenly broke, with so loud a noise as made us for a while after almost deaf. Boyle.

   3. It is usual for those that learn to swim, to support themselves with blown bladders.

   I have ventur’d,
   Like little wanton boys, that swim on bladders,
   These many summers, in a sea of glory;
   But far beyond my depth: my highblown pride
   At length broke under me. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.

   4. A blister; a pustule.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bladdernoun

   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. Bladdernoun

   any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid

3. Bladdernoun

   a distended, membranaceous pericarp

4. Bladdernoun

   anything inflated, empty, or unsound

5. Bladderverb

   to swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate

6. Bladderverb

   to put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Bladder

   blad′ėr, n. a thin bag distended with liquid or air: the receptacle for the urine.—adjs. Bladd′ered, Bladd′ery, swollen like a bladder.—n. Bladd′erwort, a genus of slender aquatic plants, the leaves floating. [A.S. blǽdre—blawan; Old Ger. blahan, blajan, to blow; Ger. blase, bladder—blasen, to blow; cf. L. flat-us, breath.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. bladder

   A type of organ.

   Humans and animals have a bladder.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 9, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Bag
   • Sac

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'bladder' in Nouns Frequency: #2921

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bladder in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bladder in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bladder in a Sentence

1. Riccardo Ricciardi Jr.:

   The prostate is a gland that surrounds the urethra, and as men get older, the gland gets enlarged, and it squeezes on that tube so it restricts the flow of urine out of the bladder.

2. Amy George:

   Overactive bladder is a syndrome defined by urinary urgency, frequency, and nocturia—somebody wakes up at night to go to the restroom.

3. Amy George:

   When the bladder gets distended, it sends a signal to the brain saying it needs to empty.

4. Patricio Gargollo:

   The easiest way to picture it is like an open book; the bladder is the pages. To close that book up so you don’t see the pages, you sew it back together and put all the muscle and skin on top of that. The backbone of the book is the pelvic bone.

5. Jean Kerr:

   One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

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