| hypertonic bladder | A bladder with poor compliance. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| glucose solution, hypertonic | Solution that is usually 10 percent glucose but may be higher. An isotonic solution of glucose is 5 percent. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| saline solution, hypertonic | Hypertonic sodium chloride solution. A solution having an osmotic pressure greater than that of physiologic salt solution (0.9 g nacl in 100 ml purified water). (12 Dec 1998) |
| hypertonic | Of a fluid, sufficiently concentrated to cause osmotic shrinkage of cells immersed in it. Note that a mildly hyperosmotic solution is not necessarily hypertonic for viable cells, that are capable of regulating their volumes by active transport. See: hypotonic, isotonic. (18 Nov 1997) |
| hypertonic solution | Any solution which has a higher osmotic pressure than another solution (that is, has a higher concentration of solutes than another solution). A solution which contains a higher concentration of solutes than the cells that it is bathing, so that water is drawn out of the cells and into the solution by osmosis. A hypertonic solution is the opposite of a hypotonic solution. (09 Oct 1997) |
| hypertonic solutions | Solutions having a higher osmotic pressure than blood, or another solution with which they are compared. (12 Dec 1998) |
| air bladder | 1. <anatomy> An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or oesophagus. 2. A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| allantoic bladder | A type of bladder formed as an outgrowth of the cloaca. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apex of urinary bladder | The junction of the superior and anteroinferior surfaces of the bladder, continuous above with the median umbilical ligament. Synonym: apex vesicae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atonic bladder | A large, dilated, and nonemptying bladder; usually due to disturbance of innervation or to chronic obstruction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autonomic neurogenic bladder | Malfunctioning bladder, secondary to low spinal cord lesions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bar of bladder | A fold of mucous membrane extending from the orifice of the ureter of one side to that of the other side. Synonym: plica interureterica, bar of bladder, Mercier's bar, plica ureterica, torus uretericus, ureteric fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| base of bladder | The fundus is formed by the posterior wall which is somewhat convex. Synonym: fundus vesicae urinariae, bas-fond, base of bladder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bladder | A membranous sac that serves as a reservoir for urine. Contraction of the bladder results in urination. (27 Sep 1997) |
| bladder calcification | <radiology> Schistosomiasis (bilharziasis), major cause worldwide, 50% have calcification, can cause squamous cell carcinoma, TB and other infections, radiation cystitis, calculi, bladder neoplasms, transitional cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, leiomyosarcoma, haemangioma, neuroblastoma, osteosarcoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| bladder calculi | Calculi of the urinary bladder; also known as vesical calculi, bladder stones or gravel, and cystoliths. Vesicoprostatic calculi are prostatic calculi extending into the bladder. (12 Dec 1998) |