bladder

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The capacity of the bladder is actually diminished, and this produces frequent urination.

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  1. noun Anatomy Any of various distensible membranous sacs, such as the urinary bladder or the swim bladder, that serve as receptacles for fluid or gas.
  2. noun An item resembling one of the membranous sacs in animals: the bladder of a football.
  3. noun Botany Any of various hollow or inflated saclike organs or structures, such as the floats of certain seaweeds or the specialized traps of bladderworts.
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  • The symptoms for bladder problem can include dribbling, urgency, hesitancy, straining, a weak urine stream or low urine production even though you feel like your bladder is full. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Evidently, the bladder, even in an infant, does not simply fill up to the brim and then release, but rather, the baby, like a child or adult, feels pressure when the bladder is about half full and must actively release the pee. —  womantalk.org
  • Botox injections into the bladder are also being tested. —  Home | Mail Online
  • The 32-year-old woman told the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday that her bladder was also damaged during the rape in 2005. —  IOL: News
  • The anterior wall of the bladder is then exposed, uncovered by peritoneum; it must be opened with great care, also in the middle line, while the wound in the parietes is held aside by retractors. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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  1. Middle English bladdre, from Old English blǣdre; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Scots also blather, blether; from Middle English bladder, blader, bledder, bleder, bladdre, bleddre, bledre, from Anglo-Saxon blæddre, properly with long vowel and single d, blædre, blēdre, a blister, a bladder (= Middle Dutch blæder, Dutch blaar = Middle Low German blādere, Low German bladere, bledder, blare = Old High German blātara, blattara, blātra, Middle High German blātere, blatter, German blatter = Icelandic bladhra = Swedish bläddra = Danish blære, bladder), with suffix -dre, from blāwan, blow: see blow.
  2. from bladder, n.
 

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