bladder

/'blædə/

Thân thiện

The swimmer's bladder helps them stay afloat in the water.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A membranous sac in animals that serves as a receptacle for a liquid or gas: In anatomy, a "bladder" is a distensible, often muscular, sac that holds fluids, most notably urine.
   • An inflatable bag or sac: A "bladder" can also refer to any similar bag-like structure that can be filled with air or fluid, such as those used in sports equipment or medical devices.

Examples

• Noun:
  • The urinary bladder stores urine until it is expelled from the body.
  • The football's bladder burst, so we couldn't play with it anymore.
  • A surgeon removed a stone from his bladder.

Advanced Usage

• "Gall bladder": A small sac under the liver that stores bile. (Note: This is a compound term listed separately as a variant.)
• "Swim bladder": An air-filled sac in fish that helps control buoyancy. (Note: This is a compound term listed separately as a variant.)
• To have a weak bladder: An informal expression meaning to need to urinate frequently or with little warning.
  • He drinks a lot of tea but has a weak bladder.

Variants and Related Words

• Urinary bladder (n): The specific organ that collects urine from the kidneys.
• Gallbladder (n): The organ that stores bile.
• Swim bladder (n): The buoyancy organ in fish.
• Bladdered (adj, UK slang): Very drunk.
  • He got completely bladdered at the party.
• Bladderwort (n): A type of aquatic plant that has small bladder-like traps.

Synonyms

• Sac: A general term for a pouch or bag-like structure in an animal or plant.
• Vesicle: A small fluid-filled sac or cyst.

Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

(Note: "Bladder" is primarily a noun and does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• A bag of wind / A windbag: An idiom for a person who talks a lot but says little of substance. This is conceptually related to one of the reference definitions describing a boastful, empty person, though "bladder" itself is not typically used in this idiomatic sense in modern English.
  • Don't listen to him; he's just a bag of wind.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a bag that fills with air
2. a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

Từ đồng nghĩa

• vesica