BLADDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bladder mean? 

• BLADDER (noun)
  The noun BLADDER has 2 senses:

1. a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

2. a bag that fills with air

  Familiarity information: BLADDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLADDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

bladder; vesica

Hypernyms ("bladder" is a kind of...):

sac (a structure resembling a bag in an animal)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bladder"):

gall bladder; gallbladder (a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion)

urinary bladder (a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine)

Derivation:

bladdery (resembling a bladder)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A bag that fills with air

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bladder" is a kind of...):

bag (a flexible container with a single opening)

Holonyms ("bladder" is a part of...):

football (the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football)

 Context examples 

Typical example is the micropapillary variant of infiltrating bladder urothelial carcinoma.

(Micropapillary Transitional Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Methylnaltrexone displaces opioids from peripheral opioid receptors in the gastrointestinal tract, the bladder, and the skin, thereby reversing the opioid-related peripheral side-effects, such as constipation, urinary retention, and pruritis, respectively.

(Methylnaltrexone bromide, NCI Thesaurus)

Methylnaltrexone displaces opioids from peripheral opioid receptors in the gastrointestinal tract, the bladder, and the skin, resulting in decreases in opioid-related constipation, urinary retention, and pruritis, respectively.

(Methylnaltrexone, NCI Thesaurus)

Untreated and mildly treated mineral oils are strongly associated with an increased risk of scrotal and skin cancer but can also cause gastrointestinal, rectal, bladder and certain respiratory-tract cancers.

(Mineral oil, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in the development of carcinomas of the liver, bladder and prostate..

(MIR101-1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in the development of hepatocellular, colon, bladder, breast and prostate carcinomas.

(MIR127 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Alteration in the expression of this gene is associated with the development of cancers of the liver, bladder and prostate.

(MIR101-1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The spread of cancer to the urinary bladder wall from an adjacent or distant anatomic site.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Bladder, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug that helps protect the kidneys and bladder from the toxic effects of anticancer drugs such as ifosfamide and cyclophosphamide.

(Mesna, NCI Dictionary)

BCG is used in a solution to stimulate the immune system in the treatment of bladder cancer and as a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis.

(BCG, NCI Dictionary)