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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.

A step, stair, or staircase. [Obs.] By ladders, or else by degree. Rom. of R.

ss from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder. But never tears his cheek descended. Byron.

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

todus 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.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. Carlyle.

One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee. He was no gadder abroad, not discontinuer from his convent for a long time. Fuller.

city 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.

ending to cause, giddiness or vertigo. To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder. Macaulay.

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

lel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance. Upton (Tactics).

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

An adder or serpent. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

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.

A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar.

A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

urning 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.