Bladder
Bladder (blad"dẽr) , noun
[Old English bladder, bleddre, Anglo-Saxon bladre, bladdre; akin to Icelandic blaera, SW. bladdra, Danish blare, Dutch blaar, Old High German blātara the bladder in the body of animals, German blatter blister, bustule; all from the same root as Anglo-Saxon blāwan, English blow, to puff. See Blow to puff.]
1.
(Anatomy) 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.
Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
3.
(Botany) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
4.
Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
To swim with bladders of philosophy.
Collocations (5)
Bladder nut or Bladder tree (Botany) , a genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods.
Bladder pod (Botany) , a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods.
Bladdor senna (Botany) , a genus of shrubs (Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods.
Bladder worm (Zoology) , the larva of any species of tapeworm (Tania), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus.
Bladder wrack (Botany) , the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and Fucus vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.
Bladder ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
1.
To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obsolete] — G. Fletcher
2.
To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.