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bladder
1. A bag that fills with air.
2. A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas).
3. An inflatable part of something, especially a football, that resembles a bag.
4. In medicine, a blister or small sac filled with fluid.
5. Any pouch or other flexible enclosure that can hold liquids or gases but usually refers to the hollow organ in the lower abdomen that stores urine; that is, the urinary bladder.
6. Etymology: Old English: blædre (West Saxon); bledre (Anglian).
2. A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas).
3. An inflatable part of something, especially a football, that resembles a bag.
4. In medicine, a blister or small sac filled with fluid.
5. Any pouch or other flexible enclosure that can hold liquids or gases but usually refers to the hollow organ in the lower abdomen that stores urine; that is, the urinary bladder.
6. Etymology: Old English: blædre (West Saxon); bledre (Anglian).
The kidneys filter waste from the blood and produce urine, which enters the bladder through two tubes called ureters. Urine leaves the bladder through another tube, the urethra.
In women, the urethra is a short tube that opens just in front of the vagina. In men, it is longer, passing through the prostate gland and then the penis. Infection of the bladder is called cystitis.
This entry is located in the following units:
vesico-, vesic- +
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vesiculo-, vesicul-, vesiculi-
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“bladder”
(Greek: little bag, bag; bladder, pouch; bladder like, sac like; from leather bag, wine skin)
(Greek: breath, wind; pertaining to air or gas; bellows, bladder, bubble; swollen; as seen in many modern scientific terms)
(Latin: bladder; blister)
(Latin: gall bladder, bile bladder, bilebladder)
(Greek: sac or bladder which contains fluid [or gas, as in pneumatocyst]; urinary bladder)
(Greek: one who stands before, in front of; refers primarily to the prostate gland [so named because it "stands before" the mouth of the bladder])
(Greek: urethra, a slitlike tube conveying urine from the internal urethral orifice of the bladder)
(Latin: [small] blister; literally, "small bladder")
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“bladder”
A flexible plastic tube that is inserted into the hollow organ located in the lower abdomen which stores urine: Dr. Atherton inserted a bladder catheter into his patient's bladder so continuous urinary drainage could take place.
An organ in the body that does not function to collect and to disperse liquid wastes from a person’s or an animal’s body: A flaccid bladder is unable to contract sufficiently to empty the urine because of neural deficiencies or chronic obstruction which is a disease or disorder that persists for a long period.
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flacc-, flacci-
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fundus of the urinary bladder, fundus vesicae urinariae
The portion of the urinary bladder adjacent to the rectum.
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fundu-, fundus-, fund-, found- +
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vesico-, vesic- +
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A slight projection into the cavity of the bladder, usually more prominent in older men: The uvula of the bladder is located just behind the urethral opening that marks the location of the middle lobe of the prostate gland.
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uvul-, uvulo-
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