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a muscular balloon that turns biology into a deadline you can't reschedule.
means The stretchy muscular sac in the body that stores urine until it's time to empty it, or any similar inflatable pouch or bag.
from From Old English 'blædre,' meaning a blister, pustule, or the bodily sac itself, descending from a Proto-Germanic root (compare German 'Blatter') tied to the idea of blowing or swelling — the same breath-and-bulge family that likely gave us 'blow' and 'blast.' At heart, it has always named the thing that puffs up and holds air or fluid.
- capacity
- holds about two cups before sounding alarms
- stretch champ
- expands to six times its empty size
- signal start
- urge begins at roughly 25% full
- medieval armor
- pig bladders became early footballs and rain hats
- muscle name
- the detrusor squeezes everything out
for instance
interstitial cystitis — chronic bladder pain condition affecting 1-2 million americans, primarily women
bladder cancer — 4th most common cancer in men, 90,000 new cases annually in the us