urinary bladder

noun

: a membranous sac in many vertebrates that serves for the temporary retention of urine and discharges by the urethra

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Recent Examples on the Web Skin melanoma, colorectal cancer and urinary bladder cancer also had a high proportion of cases attributable to risk factors. Hannah Docter-Loeb, Washington Post, 29 July 2024 But smoking is also connected to many other cancers, including urinary bladder, colorectal, and oral cavity cancer.3 Excess body weight, meanwhile, contributed to more than 7% of both cases and deaths, while alcohol consumption contributed to 5% and 4%, respectively. Tara Law, Health, 25 July 2024 Qualifying cancers are leukemia; multiple myeloma; non-Hodgkin lymphomas; and primary cancers of the pharynx, small intestine, salivary gland, brain, stomach, urinary bladder, colon, thyroid, pancreas, breast, esophagus, bile ducts, liver, gallbladder, lung and ovary. From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2021 The concern is that winds could pick up arsenic — known to cause cancers of the lung, urinary bladder, kidney, liver and skin — and other toxic materials from the dry lake bed and spread it over Salt Lake City and other populated areas of the Wasatch Front. Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022 Eleven of the 19 most-common cancers found in men — including lung and bronchus, stomach, urinary bladder, kidney and larynx cancers — decreased in mortality between 2015 and 2019. Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022 If really short, there are abnormalities of the spinal column that affect nerves going to the urinary bladder and sometimes the rectum. Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 8 Nov. 2019 The prostate is located in the male pelvis below the urinary bladder. Lee Roop, AL.com, 15 Dec. 2017 At age 82, in 1787, Franklin began experiencing acute abdominal pain, thought to be caused by a urinary bladder stone, according to an American Philosophical Society record. Philly.com, 8 Oct. 2017

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Word History

First Known Use

1728, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of urinary bladder was in 1728

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“Urinary bladder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/urinary%20bladder. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

Medical Definition

urinary bladder

noun
: a distensible membranous sac that serves for the temporary retention of the urine, is situated in the pelvis in front of the rectum, receives the urine from the two ureters and discharges it at intervals into the urethra through an orifice closed by a sphincter, is lined with transitional hypoblastic epithelium, and develops from the proximal part of the allantois of the embryo

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