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bladder

[blad-er] / ˈblæd ər /


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Kidney cancer data could arrive in a few months, while results from a bladder cancer trial could come in 2027.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

That includes renal-cell carcinoma, bladder cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

It can cause cognitive issues, difficulty walking and the loss of bladder control.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

She was so desperate she even considered selling her house to pay for private surgery to have her bladder removed.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

We have no money for a proper ball so one of the boys brings a sheep’s bladder stuffed with rags.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

U.S. bases and installations throughout the Indo-Pacific—such as in Japan, the Philippines and Guam—are in desperate need of hardened aircraft shelters, air defenses, reinforced munitions storage bunkers and fuel bladders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

We feel the pressure of sore backs and full bladders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

In Germany emerged so-called "Herod games" in which people would reportedly stage mock attacks on churches and assail bystanders with inflated animal bladders to ridicule the cruel absurdity of the Judean king.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2024

These bladders create an internal vacuum and are closed by a special 'trap door'.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

Fish make sounds by clicking their teeth, blowing air, and drumming with special muscles against tuned inflated air bladders.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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