单词 | air bladder |
释义 | air bladdern. 1. Biology and Anatomy. a. The swim bladder of a fish. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). > as lemmasair bladder b. Any membranous bag in the animal body; usually with distinctive adjunct, as gall bladder, air bladder, swimming-bladder. ΘΚΠ 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.’ < as lemmas |
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