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An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.

The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.

arvæ of any tapeworm (Tænia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.

Inflammation of the tissues surrounding the bladder.

An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no opening.

An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.

Having a duct to the air bladder.

, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc. Parr. Probe, or Probe-pointed, scissors (Surg.), scissors used to open wounds, the blade of which, to be thrust into the orifice, has a button at the end. Wiseman.

o a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra. -- n.

To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as a bladder puffed with air. The sea puffed up with winds. Shak.

Of or pertaining to both the rectum and the bladder.

metimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2. His cattle must of rot and murrain die. Milton. Bitter rot (Bot.), a disease of apples, caused by the fungus Glæosporium fructigenum. F. L. Scribner. -- Black rot (Bot.), a disease of grapevines, attack…

Dissolving stone, especially dissolving stone in the bladder.

ve to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies. Bladder senna. (Bot.) See under Bladder. -- Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

ounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.

The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

h America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.

pansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.