How to Use bladder in a Sentence

bladder

noun
  • For tennis, mid-cut heights were the norm, which wouldn’t fit the bladder design.
    Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Cause of death: rupture of the bladder, owing in part to acute peritonitis.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • So any modulation of this has to be done locally, maybe just within the bladder.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Conventional wines can have many surprising additives like isinglass, which is made from fish bladder, or casein, which is found in milk.
    Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Those functions include the working of blood vessels, breathing and sensitivity to a full bladder.
    New York Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Durst has bladder cancer and has undergone multiple surgeries, including the insertion of a shunt in his head to relieve pressure on his brain.
    Paul Vercammen, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
  • There are other variants of restless leg syndrome that affect other body parts such as your arms, abdomen, face, head, oral cavity, bladder and genitals.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The central nervous system disorder often attacks optic nerves, spinal cord and sometimes the brain, and can cause an array of issues with the bladder and bowels.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2021
  • However, some people with MS notice that menopause causes increased fatigue, mood changes, and bladder problems.
    Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Rn-Bc, Health, 24 Sep. 2024
  • When the poodle mix needed surgery to remove a large stone in her bladder, Sandoval was having trouble finding a way to pay the $2,200 bill.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Your pelvic floor muscles, located between your pelvic bone in the front and your tailbone in the back, are a set of muscles that wrap around your pelvic organs (bladder, bowel, and uterus) and work to control them1.
    Claire Sibonney, SELF, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In people with endometriosis, tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows in other parts of the body, including but not limited to the ovaries, fallopian tubes and bladder.
    Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2024
  • This mechanism is critical for everything from knowing the position of one’s limbs in space—a sense called proprioception—to detecting bladder fullness and the amount of air in the lungs.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The bladder fits snugly in the bottom of the frame bag near the bottom bracket.
    James Lynch, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The bladder and the brain The bladder has two main jobs: to safely store urine and to empty it out.
    Jennifer Ahn, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2023
  • These stones can become lodged in the ureter, the tube connecting the kidney to the bladder.
    Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
  • No, not the Capri Sun-like Franzia wine that comes in a plastic bladder inside a box.
    Julian Mark, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • On the flip side, senior dogs cannot hold their bladder as long as younger dogs.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 24 July 2022
  • The bladder accounts for about 0.8 to 1 millimeter of that.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Gently poke around to find the bladder, or piss sack, as it may be called at your deep camp, too.
    Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Last month, Martinez woke up on the couch in severe pain from a swollen bladder.
    Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Your urethra is that tube that runs from your bladder to where pee comes out of your body.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The pelvic floor muscles, which support your bladder, bowel, and uterus, are at the bottom of the core.
    Anne Harding, Health, 19 Jan. 2024
  • These muscles support the bladder and bowel, as well as the uterus.
    Kristina Behr, Parents, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The two laughed when Toppin told Teske that her bladder was full and had pushed the uterus away from its usual spot.
    Sadia Rafiquddin, STAT, 31 Aug. 2023
  • When the bladders are inflated, the wearer will float face up.
    Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The upper urinary tract consists of your kidneys and ureters—the tubes that lead to your bladder.
    Samantha Lauriello, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • And then the fourth year the bladder cancer reoccurred.
    CBS News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Mayron Michelle Hollis stood to lose her bladder, her uterus and her life.
    Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Her nephew Robert McLoughlin said the cause was gall bladder cancer.
    New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021

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