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The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

enesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.

A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.

-- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.

The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.

The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.

Of or pertaining to the urine; as, the urinary bladder; urinary excretions.

The urinary bladder.

Resembling a bladder; swollen like a bladder; inflated; utricular. Dana.

Resembling a bladder; utricular; utriculate. Dana.

A bladder. Vesica piscis. Etym: [L., dish bladder.] (Eccl. Art) A glory, or aureole, of oval shape, or composed of two arcs of circles usually represented as surrounding a divine personage. More rarely, an oval composed of two arcs not representing a glory; a solid oval, etc.

Of or pertaining to the bladder. Dunglison.

To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.

A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. Specifically: --(a) (Bot.)

Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

Containing, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.

Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.