noun
bladder
BLAD-er/ˈblædər/
A flexible internal sac holding fluid.
The bladder stores urine before it leaves the body.
Etymology
Old English blædre already meant the urinary organ, as well as a blister or pimple. Its later use for containers and flotation aids came from practical uses of animal bladders.
In context
a very high water percentage guess how much 95 percent urine travels from the kidneys through tubes called ureters until it reaches the bladder but what is the bladder
More examples
- The ball’s inner bladder holds the air.
- The scan measured the volume of her bladder.
- A small leak emptied the rubber bladder.
Forms
bladder · bladders
Similar words
- ureter
- A tube carrying urine toward the bladder rather than storing it.