Air-bladder
71bladder wrack — blad′der wrack n. mcr a common seaweed, Fucus vesiculosus, of cold marine waters, having narrow brownish fronds with air filled vesicles …
72Air Search — Allowing a dog to empty his bowels and bladder …
73Swim bladder — Swim Swim, n. 1. The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. [1913 Webster] 3. A part of a stream much frequented by fish. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] {Swim… …
74fish bladder — 1) the storage sac for urine 2) a figure composed of two equal and symmetrically placed circular arcs. See also vesica piscis 3) gas bladder (a thin membranous, sometimes alveolated sac in the dorsal portion of the abdominal cavity. Contains a… …
75fish-bladder — 1) the storage sac for urine 2) a figure composed of two equal and symmetrically placed circular arcs. See also vesica piscis 3) gas bladder (a thin membranous, sometimes alveolated sac in the dorsal portion of the abdominal cavity. Contains a… …
76swim bladder — n. a gas filled sac in the dorsal portion of the body cavity of most bony fishes, giving buoyancy to the body and used as an accessory, lunglike organ in lungfishes * * * ▪ fish anatomy also called air bladder, buoyancy organ possessed… …
77gas bladder — a thin membranous, sometimes alveolated sac in the dorsal portion of the abdominal cavity. Composed of three layers, the tunica externa, the submucosa or middle layer and the tunica interna, all q.v. Contains a varying mixture of gases, not… …
78gas bladder — noun An internal organ that fish use to control their buoyancy, allowing them to maintain or change depth by changing their density. Syn: air bladder, fish maw, swim bladder …
79swim bladder — noun an air filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy • Syn: ↑air bladder, ↑float • Hypernyms: ↑sac …
80swim bladder — noun Date: 1837 the air bladder of a fish …
