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The larval stage of a tapeworm (Tænia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

atic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. -- Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal colic, associated with obstinate constipation,…

Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.

In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder. [Written also cystis.]

ing to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder. Cystic duct, the duct from the gall bladder which unites with the hepatic to form the common bile duct. -- Cystic worm (Zoöl.), a larval tape worm, as the cysticercus and echinococcus.…

head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

Inflammation of the bladder.

Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

Relating to stone in the bladder.

Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.

The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.

ving characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder.

ratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

ticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. The warmth distends the chinks. Dryden.

any fish of the family Sciænidæ, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.

splacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor. The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang. Coleridge.

An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.

turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.