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An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. Waller.

The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.

ee glue. See under Bee. -- Fish glue, a strong kind of glue obtained from fish skins and bladders; isinglass. -- Glue plant (Bot.), a fucoid seaweed (Gloiopeltis tenax). -- Liquid glue, a fluid preparation of glue and acetic acid oralcohol. -- Marine glue, a solution of caoutchouc in naphtha, with shellac, used in…

A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.

A membranous sac or bladder filled with a pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the Vocabulary. Hydatid of Morgagni (Anat.), one of the small p…

To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs. When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes. J. Scott of Amwell.

nsparent, whitish, and very pure from of gelatin, chiefly prepared from the sounds or air bladders of various species of sturgeons (as the Acipenser huso) found in the of Western Russia. It used for making jellies, as a clarifier, etc. Cheaper forms of gelatin are not unfrequently so called. Called also fish glue.…

The bladder campion (Silene inflata).

The formation of stony concretions or calculi in any part of the body, especially in the bladder and urinary passages. Dunglison.

Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis. LIthic acid (Old Med. Chem.), uric acid. See Uric acid, under Uric.

An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

Having the quality of, or used for, dissolving or destroying stone in the bladder or kidneys; as, lithontriptic forcéps. -- n.

An instrument used for cutting the bladder in operations for the stone.

One who performs the operation of cutting for stone in the bladder, or one who is skilled in the operation.

The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.

The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.

One skilled in breaking and extracting stone in the bladder.