puncture | the act of puncturing or perforating |
lumbar puncture spinal puncture spinal tap | removal by centesis of fluid from the subarachnoid space of the lumbar region of the spinal cord for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes |
bladderwrack black rockweed bladder fucus tang Fucus vesiculosus | a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure |
bladder worm | encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm |
air bladder swim bladder float | an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy |
bladder | a bag that fills with air |
puncture | a small hole made by a sharp object |
gallbladder gall bladder | a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion |
bladder vesica | a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) |
urinary bladder | a membranous sac for temporary retention of urine |
bladder sphincter musculus sphincter vesicae | the sphincter muscle of the urinary bladder, made up of a thickened muscular layer of bladder around the urethral opening |
puncture | loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object |
bladder stone cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
white campion evening lychnis white cockle bladder campion Silene latifolia Lychnis alba | bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx, sometimes placed in genus Lychnis |
bladder campion Silene uniflora Silene vulgaris | perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx |
flower-of-an-hour flowers-of-an-hour bladder ketmia black-eyed Susan Hibiscus trionum | annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers, Old World tropics, naturalized as a weed in North America |
bladder senna Colutea arborescens | yellow-flowered European shrub cultivated for its succession of yellow flowers and very inflated bladdery pods and as a source of wildlife food |
Chinese lantern plant winter cherry bladder cherry Physalis alkekengi | Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orangeed calyx |
bladder fern | any fern of the genus Cystopteris characterized by a hooded indusium or bladderlike membrane covering the sori |
brittle bladder fern brittle fern fragile fern Cystopteris fragilis | delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems |
mountain bladder fern Cystopteris montana | fern of rocky mountainous areas of hemisphere |
bulblet fern bulblet bladder fern berry fern Cystopteris bulbifera | North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets |
bladder disorder | a disorder of the urinary bladder |
flaccid bladder | a urinary bladder disorder resulting from interruption of the reflex arc normally associated with voiding urine, absence of bladder sensation and over-filling of the bladder and inability to urinate voluntarily |
neurogenic bladder | a urinary bladder disorder caused by a lesion in the nervous system |
spastic bladder | a urinary bladder disorder resulting from spinal cord lesion or multiple sclerosis or trauma, absence of bladder sensation and incontinence and interrupted voiding of urine |
puncture | be pierced or punctured, The tire punctured |
puncture | cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing, puncture an air balloon |
deflate puncture | reduce or lessen the size or importance of, The bad review of his work deflated his self-confidence |
puncture | pierce with a pointed object, make a hole into, puncture a tire |
puncture | make by piercing, puncture a hole |