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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bladder
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gall bladder
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
postprandial
▪ Our study also showed that postprandial gall bladder contraction was suppressed for at least four hours after octreotide injection.
▪ Like others, we saw postprandial gall bladder filling rather than contraction at 45 minutes and four hours after injection.
▪ After each mode of octreotide treatment, postprandial residual gall bladder volume increased.
▪ In pregnancy and obesity, increased fasting and postprandial residual gall bladder volumes are associated with increased risk of gall stone formation.
▪ This study indicates that octreotide injections impair postprandial gall bladder contraction for at least four hours.
▪ Eight hours after octreotide injection, postprandial gall bladder contraction was partially restored.
symptomatic
▪ The rate of symptomatic gall bladder disease among women of parity 1 was generally twice that of their nulliparous counterparts.
▪ These results suggest that smoking and parity are important risk factors for the development of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women.
▪ The rate of symptomatic gall bladder disease roughly doubled once a woman had been pregnant.
▪ Women in social classes IV+V had a 25% greater risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease compared with those in social classes I+II.
▪ This study assessed symptomatic gall bladder disease rather the total occurrence of the condition.
■ NOUN
bile
▪ Paired hepatic and gall bladder bile samples were collected from 10 patients with cholesterol gall stones and six patients without gall stones.
▪ The composition of phospholipids in human hepatic and gall bladder bile has been studied by a number of investigators during recent years.
▪ The concentrations of total lipid and protein in gall bladder bile were not significantly different between the two groups.
▪ Recent evidence suggests, however, that nicotine inhibits gall bladder bile mucin concentration.
cancer
▪ Just before she flew to nationals, she learned that her father, Gene, had been diagnosed with bladder cancer.
contraction
▪ At eight hours after injection, about 70% of maximum gall bladder contraction was achieved at 45 minutes after the test meal.
▪ It would seem that acromegaly as such does not directly impair gall bladder contraction.
▪ Our study also showed that postprandial gall bladder contraction was suppressed for at least four hours after octreotide injection.
▪ This is probably because of impaired gall bladder contraction.
▪ These findings support the existence of a key L-arginine-nitric oxide pathway regulating gall bladder contraction.
▪ Low plasma octreotide concentration and increased fasting volume may explain improved gall bladder contraction.
▪ This study indicates that octreotide injections impair postprandial gall bladder contraction for at least four hours.
▪ Gall bladder contraction is regulated by an interaction of the myenteric plexus with intestinal hormones.
control
▪ Female speaker I find bladder control and general movement a lot easier as a result of this.
▪ For women under 65 years of age, stress incontinence is the leading cause of the loss of bladder control.
▪ I've noticed that she has good bladder control.
▪ In women aged 65 and older, spasms are one of the chief causes of loss of bladder control.
▪ Toilet training Toilet training covers three main areas of management 1 daytime bladder control 2 night-time bladder control 3 bowel control.
disease
▪ A direct relation between body mass index and the risk of gall bladder disease has been described.
▪ Occasionally the pain may mimic that of pancreatitis, gall bladder disease, appendicitis, or angina pectoris.
▪ Previous studies of the effect of smoking on gall bladder disease have reported conflicting results.
▪ The third study found a direct relation between smoking and clinical gall bladder disease among men but not among women.
▪ On balance the better controlled studies have shown that cigarette smoking promotes gall bladder disease.
▪ The rate of symptomatic gall bladder disease among women of parity 1 was generally twice that of their nulliparous counterparts.
▪ These results suggest that smoking and parity are important risk factors for the development of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women.
▪ The rate of symptomatic gall bladder disease roughly doubled once a woman had been pregnant.
gall
▪ Our study also showed that postprandial gall bladder contraction was suppressed for at least four hours after octreotide injection.
▪ In many instances nutrition is the solution and eliminating animal fat from the diet restores the gall bladder to balance.
▪ The composition of phospholipids in human hepatic and gall bladder bile has been studied by a number of investigators during recent years.
▪ Little is known, however, about the effect of hyperglycaemia on gall bladder motility.
▪ These findings support the existence of a key L-arginine-nitric oxide pathway regulating gall bladder contraction.
▪ This study reports a reliable and reproducible method of harvesting and culturing gall bladder epithelial cells.
▪ After each mode of octreotide treatment, postprandial residual gall bladder volume increased.
▪ The effect of octreotide on gall bladder motility may not be crucial in the formation of gall stones.
motility
▪ This study explored the role of the L-arginine-NO pathway in the regulation of gall bladder motility.
▪ This syndrome is characterised clinically by abnormalities of gastrointestinal and, in some cases, bladder motility.
▪ Little is known, however, about the effect of hyperglycaemia on gall bladder motility.
▪ The mechanism responsible for the inhibitory action of hyperglycaemia on gall bladder motility is not known.
▪ The effect of octreotide on gall bladder motility may not be crucial in the formation of gall stones.
▪ It remains to be established whether in diabetic patients gall bladder motility is dependent on actual serum glucose concentrations.
pressure
▪ In these experiments, the duration of changes in intraluminal gall bladder pressure was not modified by the inhibitor.
▪ Thus gall bladder muscle contractions could be recorded as changes in intraluminal gall bladder pressure.
stone
▪ The rich eat too much meat and suffer from chronic constipation, diseases of the bowel, gout, and bladder stones.
▪ The same triple defect probably contributes to the formation of recurrent gall bladder stones.
▪ Lithotripsy of a densely calcified gall bladder stone has been described in a case report.
▪ How does this technique compare with other non-operative treatments for gall bladder stones?
volume
▪ Similarly, increased fasting gall bladder volumes have been reported in obese, tall, and muscular subjects.
▪ Gall bladder volume was calculated with the sum of cylinders method.
▪ In gall bladder filling after a test meal, V r e s reflects maximum gall bladder volume.
▪ After each mode of octreotide treatment, postprandial residual gall bladder volume increased.
▪ In pregnancy and obesity, increased fasting and postprandial residual gall bladder volumes are associated with increased risk of gall stone formation.
▪ Fasting gall bladder volume increased after injections, compared with the volume before treatment.
■ VERB
empty
▪ This can be multiplied manyfold in its unpleasantness, if you are a woman emptying your bladder at the time.
▪ I emptied my fear-engorged bladder before nervously squeezing myself into my kayak.
▪ Before giving pre-medication 1 Request the patient to empty his bladder.
▪ Then, next time you go to the toilet, try this stop test half way through emptying your bladder.
▪ Marlin was taking his time emptying his bladder.
▪ Subjects then emptied their bladders, saving a sample of urine.
▪ By the age of 3 years most children can voluntarily initiate emptying a full bladder and later a partly full bladder.
▪ As he emptied his bladder he stared at his face in the shaving mirror.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A direct relation between body mass index and the risk of gall bladder disease has been described.
▪ His bladder was full to straining, and there was no catheter-tube in the DeLorean.
▪ It would seem that acromegaly as such does not directly impair gall bladder contraction.
▪ Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the most popular method for removing the gall bladder.
▪ Special muscles at the neck of the bladder contract to prevent flow back into the bladder.
▪ The drain was then removed and the cholecystoscope passed over the guidewire into the lumen of the gall bladder.
▪ This is probably because of impaired gall bladder contraction.
▪ Unfortunately, no effective gall bladder plug has been developed despite considerable research in this field.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bladder

Bladder \Blad"der\ (bl[a^]d"d[~e]r), n. [OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. bl[=ae]dre, bl[=ae]ddre; akin to Icel. bla[eth]ra, SW. bl["a]ddra, Dan. bl[ae]re, D. blaar, OHG. bl[=a]tara the bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS. bl[=a]wan, E. blow, to puff. See Blow to puff.]

  1. (Anat.) 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. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

  4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. ``To swim with bladders of philosophy.''
    --Rochester.

    Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants ( Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods.

    Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs ( Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods.

    Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs ( Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods.

    Bladder worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of any species of tapeworm ( T[ae]nia), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus.

    Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast ( Fucus nodosus and Fucus vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

Bladder

Bladder \Blad"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bladdered; p. pr. & vb. n. Bladdering.]

  1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.]
    --G. Fletcher.

  2. To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bladder

Old English blædre (West Saxon), bledre (Anglian) "(urinary) bladder," also "blister, pimple," from Proto-Germanic *blaedron (cognates: Old Norse blaðra, Old Saxon bladara, Old High German blattara, German Blatter, Dutch blaar), from PIE *bhle- "to blow" (see blast). Extended senses from early 13c. from animal bladders used for buoyancy, storage, etc.

Wiktionary
bladder

n. 1 (context zoology English) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases. 2 (context anatomy English) Specifically, the urinary bladder. 3 (context botany English) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant. 4 The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls. 5 A sealed plastic bag that contains wine and is usually packaged in a cask wine. 6 (context figurative English) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. vb. 1 To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. 2 (context transitive English) To store or put up in bladders.

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WordNet
bladder

  1. n. a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: vesica]

  2. a bag that fills with air

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Bladder (disambiguation)

Bladder often refers to the urinary bladder, which collects urine for excretion in animals.

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Usage examples of "bladder".

One of the most common symptoms of anteversion is a frequent desire to urinate, in consequence of the pressure of the uterus upon the bladder.

Enlargement of the uterus, the womb, or displacements of that organ, as prolapsus, or anteversion, and all capable of producing symptoms of bladder disease.

She kept up the routine when she got to the autostrada as well, although the suddenly uncooperative nature of her bladder and the fact that for the first time in her life she felt carsick meant that she had to stop frequently.

As the ice gripping the base of the structure twisted to some unseen current, the two opposites sides came into view, revealing the broken maw of wooden framework reaching beneath the street level, crowded with enormous balsa logs and what appeared to be massive inflated bladders, three of them punctured and flaccid.

The patient, it appears, had a large exostosis on the body of the pubes which, during parturition, was forced through the walls of the uterus and bladder, resulting in death.

It consists of a deficiency of the abdominal wall in the hypogastric region, in which is seen the denuded bladder.

Smith mentions a man who had two penises and two bladders, on one of which lithotomy was performed.

A Dutch blacksmith and a German cooper each performed lithotomy on themselves for the intense pain caused by a stone in the bladder.

This noted operator performed, synchronously, double ovariotomy and resections of portions of the bladder and ileum, for a large medullary carcinomatous growth of the ovary, with surrounding involvement.

Some of these symptoms may be present as the result of functional or organic disease of other organs than the kidneys or bladder, and to distinguish them with positive certainty is impossible without the aid of a microscopical and chemical examination of the urine.

Schenck mentions a calculus perforating the bladder and lodging in the groin.

These, with seven or eight long bristles on both sides of the peristome, form a sort of net over the valve, which would tend to prevent all animals, excepting very small ones, entering the bladder.

It may be associated with inflammation of the ovaries, peritoneum, or bladder.

The uterus, nearly as large as in the adult female, lay between the bladder and rectum, and was enclosed between two layers of peritoneum, to which, on either side of the uterus, were attached the testes.

American trains were plusher, faster and equipped with lavatories at a time when Europeans had to hope for either a strong bladder or a short trip, and her city streets were better lit at night.