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Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc..

Scaling :: Scaling (a.) Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place..

Lithotomy :: Lithotomy (n.) The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder..

Bladdering :: Bladdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladde.

Gladder :: Gladder (n.) One who makes glad.

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation..

Urethra :: Urethra (n.) The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard..

Blister :: Blister (n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle..

Dipnoi :: Dipnoi (n. pl.) A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix..

Cystolithic :: Cystolithic (a.) Relating to stone in the bladder.

Escalade :: Escalade (v. t.) To mount and pass or enter by means of ladders; to scale; as, to escalate a wall..

Prostate :: Prostate (a.) Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra..

Measles :: Measles (n.) The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms..

Diphtheritic :: Diphtheritic (a.) Having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder..

Ascend :: Ascend (v. t.) To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne..

Scale :: Scale (v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort..

Lithoclast :: Lithoclast (n.) An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

Physostomous :: Physostomous (a.) Having a duct to the air bladder.

Descend :: Descend (v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder..

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