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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bladder \Blad"der\ (bl[a^]d"d[~e]r), noun [OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. bl[=ae]dre, bl[=ae]ddre; akin to Icel. bla[eth]ra, SW. bl["a]ddra, Dan. bl[ae]re, D. blaar, OHG. bl[=a]tara the bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS. bl[=a]wan, E. blow, to puff. See {Blow} to puff.]
1. (Anat.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.
2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. ''To swim with bladders of philosophy.'' --Rochester.
{Bladder nut}, or {Bladder tree} (Bot.), a genus of plants ({Staphylea}) with bladderlike seed pods.
{Bladder pod} (Bot.), a genus of low herbs ({Vesicaria}) with inflated seed pods.
{Bladdor senna} (Bot.), a genus of shrubs ({Colutea}), with membranaceous, inflated pods.
{Bladder worm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of any species of tapeworm ({T[ae]nia}), found in the flesh or other parts of animals. See {Measle}, {Cysticercus}.
{Bladder wrack} (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast ({Fucus nodosus} and {Fucus vesiculosus}) -- called also {bladder tangle}. See {Wrack}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bladder \Blad"der\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bladdered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bladdering}.]
1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.] --G. Fletcher.
2. To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bladder
noun
1: a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: {vesica}]
2: a bag that fills with air
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "bladder": air bubble, bag, ball, balloon, bleb, blister, blob, blood blister, boll, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulla, cap and bells, coxcomb, ellipsoid, fever blister, fob, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, knob, knot, motley, oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pocket, poke, prolate spheroid, rondure, sac, sack, slapstick, soap bubble, sock, sphere, spheroid, spherule, vesicle
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