Definitions for bladder

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bladder blad·der

Spelling: [blad-er]

IPA: /ˈblæd ər/

Bladder is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in bladder (abddelr).

Definitions for bladder

noun

1. Anatomy, Zoology. a membranous sac or organ serving as a receptacle for a fluid or air. urinary bladder.
2. Pathology. a vesicle, blister, cyst, etc., filled with fluid or air.
3. Botany. an air-filled sac or float, as in certain seaweeds.
4. something resembling a bladder, as the inflatable lining of a football or basketball.
5. an air-filled sac, usually made to resemble a club, used for beatings in low comedy, vaudeville, or the like.

Origin of bladder

before 900; Middle English; Old English blǣddre, blǣdre bladder, blister, pimple; cognate with Old Norse blāthra, dialectal Dutch bladder, German Blatter; akin to Examples for bladder

The news comes after the her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, was  hospitalised twice with a bladder infection last year.

Prick the bladder with a needle every so often,” she advises sagely, “to keep it from exploding.

And when all of them were tied on, the raft floated like a bladder.

"Both," said Black Tom, scratching his big head, as bald as a bladder.

If Black Tom had not been as bald as a bladder, he would have torn his hair in his mortification.

The girl, Mariam, was born with her bladder outside her body.

She lost control of her bladder as she crouched in a corner, shaking, and unable to move her body due to the shock.

Kerri Kasem said in court Friday that her father was suffering from bedsores and lung and bladder infections.

After the blood had accumulated in the cavity of the chest it was removed and put into a bladder.

He worried himself so much in trying to escape that he looked like a bladder.