BLADDER DISORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bladder disorder mean? 

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

1. a disorder of the urinary bladder

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLADDER DISORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder of the urinary bladder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

disorder; upset (a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)

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

flaccid bladder (a urinary bladder disorder resulting from interruption of the reflex arc normally associated with voiding urine; absence of bladder sensation and over-filling of the bladder and inability to urinate voluntarily)

neurogenic bladder (a urinary bladder disorder caused by a lesion in the nervous system)

spastic bladder (a urinary bladder disorder resulting from spinal cord lesion or multiple sclerosis or trauma; absence of bladder sensation and incontinence and interrupted voiding of urine)

 Context examples 

A representative example of neoplastic bladder disorder is bladder carcinoma.

(Bladder Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A representative example of non-neoplastic bladder disorder is bacterial bladder infection.

(Bladder Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)