| failure | an unexpected omission, he resented my failure to return his call, the mechanic's failure to check the brakes |
| failure | an act that fails, his failure to pass the test |
retention
keeping holding | the act of retaining something |
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 |
retentiveness retentivity
retention | the power of retaining liquid, moisture retentivity of soil |
| urinary retention | holding urine in the urinary bladder, he has a problem with urinary retention |
excretory organ
urinary organ | an organ that separates waste substances from the blood and discharges them |
gallbladder
gall bladder | a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion |
urogenital system
urogenital apparatus
urinary system
urinary apparatus
genitourinary system
genitourinary apparatus
systema urogenitale
apparatus urogenitalis | the system that includes all organs involved in reproduction and in the formation and voidance of urine |
| urinary tract | the organs and tubes involved in the production and excretion of urine |
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 |
memory
retention
retentiveness
retentivity | the power of retaining and recalling past experience, he had a good memory when he was younger |
| failure | an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose, the surprise party was a complete failure |
| breakdown equipment failure | a cessation of normal operation, there was a power breakdown |
| brake failure | brakes fail to stop a vehicle |
| engine failure | engine does not run |
power outage
power failure | equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails, the ice storm caused a power outage |
| retention basin | a storage site similar to a detention basin but the water in storage is permanently obstructed from flowing downstream |
bladder stone
cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
kidney stone
urinary calculus
nephrolith
renal calculus | a calculus formed in the kidney |
failure
loser nonstarter
unsuccessful person | a person with a record of failing, someone who loses consistently |
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 |
enuresis
urinary incontinence | inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination |
| bladder disorder | a disorder of the urinary bladder |
| failure | loss of ability to function normally, kidney failure |
| circulatory failure | failure of the cardiovascular system to supply adequate amounts of blood to body tissues |
heart failure
coronary failure | inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions |
| congestive heart failure | inability to pump enough blood to avoid congestion in the tissues |
renal failure
kidney failure | inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and to help maintain the electrolyte balance |
acute renal failure
acute kidney failure | renal failure associated with burns or other trauma or with acute infection or obstruction of the urinary tract |
chronic renal failure
chronic kidney failure | renal failure that can result from a variety of systemic disorders |
maple syrup urine disease
branched chain ketoaciduria | an inherited disorder of metabolism in which the urine has a odor characteristic of maple syrup, if untreated it can lead to mental retardation and death in early childhood |
| 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 |
| failure | lack of success, he felt that his entire life had been a failure, that year there was a crop failure |
bankruptcy
failure | inability to discharge all your debts as they come due, the company had to declare bankruptcy, fraudulent loans led to the failure of many banks |