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单词 air bladder
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air bladdern.

Brit. /ˈɛː ˌbladə/, U.S. /ˈɛr ˌblædər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: air n.1, bladder n.
Etymology: < air n.1 + bladder n.
1. Biology and Anatomy.
a. The swim bladder of a fish.
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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > air bladder or parts of
sound1323
swimmer1579
wind-bladder1594
rete1615
swim1638
air bladder1675
swimming-bladder1713
air duct1744
red body1785
swim-bladder1837
fish-maw1840
fish-sound1879
maw1883
red gland1896
1675 J. Ray in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 350 I suppose, the Air-bladder being near their heads helps them to lift up their head and fore-part.
1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling i. xii. 39 The Air-Bladder runs the whole length of the Back, as in Trouts.
1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 63 7 The sounds, or air-bladders of fresh-water fish, in general, are preferred for this purpose [sc. making isinglass].
1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. vii. 492 The air-bladder is lined by a delicate mucous membrane.
1893 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 185 306 The non-utility of the air-bladder as a hydrostatic organ in several of these Siluroids is very obvious.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 439 The Selachians are marked by having a cartilaginous endoskeleton..and no air-bladder.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xvii. 249 The air bladder..serves the perch as a hydrostatic organ by means of which the fish keeps its body at the same specific gravity as the water surrounding it.
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 77/2 The Pirarucu (Arapaima gigas ) of South America..has an air bladder fashioned into a lung.
b. Each of the air-filled sacs or alveoli in the lungs. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > [noun] > lungs > air-cell of
air bladder1693
alveolus1848
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 903 For the Lungs [printed Luugs] are stretch'd..as to take up double the room they do in the state of expiration..; and even in this state the Air-bladders are not fully evacuated, but contain Air for good purposes.
1758 J. Mackenzie Hist. Health ii. i. 343 The branches of the pulmonary artery..are ultimately subdivided into an endless number of capillary ramifications, which are spread like a fine net-work, over the surface of every individual air bladder.
1787 T. Topham New Compend. Syst. Dis. Cattle 61 Great part of this extravasated blood remains in the lungs, and stuffs up the air bladder,..by which the difficulty of breathing is very much increased.
1850 W. A. Alcott Familiar Lett. Young Men xiii. 122 Those air bladders, or small hollow cells, of which the lungs are so largely made up.
c. In various animals and plants: a bladder or sac filled with air or gas, as those in floating algae.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > part for swimming or floating
air bladder1770
swimmer1816
float1832
swimming-bell1861
float-bladder1866
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > parts of
air bladder1770
strawberry1896
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > fucus seaweeds > bladder-wrack and allies
sea-oak1597
sea-bladder1681
sea-blubber1681
bottle-ore1756
air bladder1770
bladder-wrack1777
black tang1796
sea-bottle1825
bladder-kelp1835
bladder-tangle1857
1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 55 (caption) Parenchyma which gives the dark green colour to this plant, replete with globular appearances, like air-bladders.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica II. 904 [Fucus vesiculosus] Bladder Fucus, or Common Sea Wrack. Anglis... In the disc or surface are immersed hollow sphærical or oval air-bladders.
1853 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 4) 451 The Bladderwort Family... The leaves..submersed,..commonly furnished with air-bladders to render them buoyant.
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 99 The air bladder [of a siphonophore] itself is only a modified medusa bell.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1057 At points where forking occurs the air-bladders are to be found in pairs. They may help to keep the plant floating in the water.
1972 M. J. Ursin Life in & around Salt Marshes 19 (caption) Rockweed, fucus. Fucus vesiculosus..is easily recognized by the small paired air bladders and flat branches.
2001 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 162 658/2 The pollen of Paleozoic coniferophytes generally displays a hollow air bladder or saccus that surrounds the grain in the equatorial plane.
2. A cavity or vesicle in a solid substance, esp. cast metal or glass. Also: a manufactured article in the form of an air-filled bladder.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > qualities of metals > [noun] > imperfections > cavities in casting
blowhole1691
sand-hole1691
air bladder1803
air hole1813
pipe1861
pinhole1906
1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 97 Those metals..may, by hammering and rolling, be brought more nearly to a certain uniform density; for the number and capacity of the interstices, or air-bladders, in the interior of the mass, are thus more or less diminished.
1853 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 23 154 The white iceberg is..crossed by broad stripes of intense blue-coloured ice, which is quite clear, and either contains no air-bladders, or, at all events, very irregular ones.
1869 Eng. Mech. 15 Oct. 106/3 If too hot, it is liable to have air-bladders.
1956 L. Mallan Men, Rockets & Space 295 G-suit, a protective costume designed so that expanding air bladders increase pressure against the body as acceleration increases.
1989 Car & Driver Oct. 43/3 There are five air bladders in each front bucket.
1999 N.Y. Times 14 Nov. iv. 16/4 A helicopter pilot..spotted a shadowy, plane-shaped object on a shoal near Martha's Vineyard. Divers using air bladders pulled it up.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

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air bladder
b. Any membranous bag in the animal body; usually with distinctive adjunct, as gall bladder, air bladder, swimming-bladder.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [noun] > depression or cavity
pita1275
holec1300
cella1398
den1398
follicle?a1425
purse?a1425
pocketa1450
fossac1475
cystis1543
trench1565
conceptory1576
vesike1577
vesicle1578
vault1594
socket1601
bladderet1615
cistern1615
cavern1626
ventricle1641
bladder1661
antrum1684
conceptaculum1691
capsule1693
cellule1694
loculus1694
sinus1704
vesicula1705
vesica1706
fosse1710
pouch1712
cyst1721
air chamber1725
fossula1733
alveole1739
sac1741
sacculus1749
locule1751
compartment1772
air cell1774
fossule1803
umbilicus1811
conceptacle1819
cœlia1820
utricle1822
air sac1835
saccule1836
ampulla1845
vacuole1853
scrobicule1880
faveolus1882
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 232 A bladder in them full of spawn.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. vi. 106 The first bladder of the Heart.
1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. x. 166 The gall-bladder is sometimes distended with bile.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §527 In the organisation of Fishes..the swimming bladder is situated in the abdomen.
1869 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (1880) xxv. 250 Rotifera..In the hinder part of the body..is a sac or vesicle, which is termed the ‘contractile bladder.’
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