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A kind of movable stepladder. Knight. Trap stairs, a staircase leading to a trapdoor. -- Trap tree (Bot.) the jack; -- so called because it furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st Jack.

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 fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given. [Obs.]

on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.

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.