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  • noun Plural form of bladder.

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Examples

  • Actual specific examples of front loading preadaption were mentioned in another blog - swim bladders from the lungs of lung fish for one.

    2010 April - Telic Thoughts 2010

  • Show of hands: How many of us find ourselves sitting at the internet for so long our bladders are about to burst, only to find our legs almost too rubbery to get us to the head?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Internet and Stupidity: 2010

  • Unfortunately, large airchambers are poor insulators — gravity and any change in temperature produce convection currents inside the bladders, which is why inflatable air mattresses are fun in sun and the swimming pool, but cold camping in the mountains.

    Astor Wines says no to Styro, yes to plastic sleeves | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

  • Show of hands: How many of us find ourselves sitting at the internet for so long our bladders are about to burst, only to find our legs almost too rubbery to get us to the head?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Internet and Stupidity: 2010

  • So there are now nine women walking around Boston with regrown bladders, which is much more pleasant than walking around with a whole bunch of plastic bags for the rest of your life.

    Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science 2009

  • So there are now nine women walking around Boston with regrown bladders, which is much more pleasant than walking around with a whole bunch of plastic bags for the rest of your life.

    Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science 2009

  • So there are now nine women walking around Boston with regrown bladders, which is much more pleasant than walking around with a whole bunch of plastic bags for the rest of your life.

    Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science 2009

  • It just turns out that keeping people from voiding their bladders was a "low cost, low risk" way to create pain that's easily relieved after a quick zip to the bathroom.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • BARNETT: What's she's saying is that she was loopy from the previous drugs, and now that she's on Enbrel, she's actually fine and calm and pain-free and doesn't have to eat monkey gall bladders which is apparently one treatment that she was subjected to from Chinese medicine doctor.

    CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2005 2005

  • We wanted to get as much mileage behind us as traffic and 'bladders' would allow.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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