URINARY BLADDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urinary bladder mean? 

• URINARY BLADDER (noun)
  The noun URINARY BLADDER has 1 sense:

1. a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine

  Familiarity information: URINARY BLADDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URINARY BLADDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A membranous sac for temporary retention of urine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

bladder; vesica (a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas))

Meronyms (parts of "urinary bladder"):

bladder sphincter; musculus sphincter vesicae (the sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder; made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening)

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

apparatus urogenitalis; genitourinary apparatus; genitourinary system; systema urogenitale; urinary apparatus; urinary system; urogenital apparatus; urogenital system (the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine)

urinary tract (the organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine)

 Context examples 

The most common morphologic subtype of urinary bladder carcinoma (over 90% of cases).

(Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The tissue layers that form the urinary bladder.

(Bladder Wall, NCI Thesaurus)

An infectious process affecting the urinary bladder.

(Infectious Cystitis, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormal communication between the urinary bladder and the intestine.

(Enterovesical Fistula, NCI Thesaurus)

The administration of a drug within the urinary bladder.

(Intravesical Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms that result from pathologic processes affecting the urinary bladder and/or urethra.

(Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)

An invasive or non-invasive papillary transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder.

(Bladder Papillary Urothelial Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-neoplastic or neoplastic disorder affecting the urinary bladder.

(Bladder Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A papillary transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder, characterized by minimal cytologic atypia and infrequent mitotic figures (usually limited to the lower half of the tumor).

(Non-Invasive Bladder Papillary Urothelial Carcinoma, Low Grade, NCI Thesaurus)

Arsenic causes cancers of the skin, urinary bladder, kidneys and lungs.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)