|
|
Reverse Search
Reverse Search allows you to search within the full text of dictionary entries for words, word parts, and phrases.
Search for entries that contain:
Exact matches of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or the word "orange."
Any form of any of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" or "apples" or "orange" or "oranges."
Exact matches of all of the individual words entered in the search box.
Example: Searching for "apple orange" identifies all entries that contain the word "apple" and the word "orange."
The exact sequence of words and/or characters entered in the search box (for example, a fragment of a word, a single word, multiple words, or even a phrase containing punctuation)
Example: Searching for "a variety of apple" identifies all entries that contain that phrase. Searching for "app" identifies all entries that contain the letters "app," such as occurrences of "apple," "application," and "apply."
Search within these fields:
Optional:
Limit by part of speech:
| bladder |
an organ inside the body that collects urine. The bladder gets larger when it fills and smaller when it becomes empty. |
| catheter |
a thin, flexible, hollow tube inserted into a body passage or cavity to drain fluid, esp. urine from the bladder. |
| cholecystectomy |
surgical removal of the gall bladder. |
| cisplatin |
a platinum-containing chemotherapy drug used esp. in the treatment of ovarian, testicular, and bladder cancer. |
| -cyst |
sac; cavity; vesicle; bladder. |
| cystectomy |
the surgical removal of a cyst, or of all or part of a bladder. |
| cystic |
of or concerning the gall bladder or urinary bladder. [1/2 definitions] |
| cystitis |
inflammation of the urinary bladder. |
| cysto- |
bladder; sac. |
| cystoscope |
an instrument for examining the urinary bladder and passages. |
| evacuate |
to discharge the contents of (one's bowel or bladder); empty. [1/5 definitions] |
| gallstone |
a small stonelike concretion abnormally formed in the gall bladder or a bile passage. |
| kidney |
one of a pair of organs in the body which remove water and waste products from the blood. The waste products go from the kidneys to the bladder in the form of urine. The kidneys are found high in the abdomen near the spine. [1/2 definitions] |
| lithotomy |
surgery to remove mineral deposits from the bladder. |
| prostate gland |
the muscular gland that surrounds the urethra at the base of the bladder in male mammals, and that secretes a fluid discharge for sperm. |
| schistosomiasis |
a chronic, usu. tropical disease caused by an infestation of certain worm parasites, and producing disorders of the liver, bladder, lungs, or central nervous system. |
| ureter |
a narrow duct through which urine moves from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. |
| urethra |
a duct that carries urine outside the body from the bladder and that, in a male mammal, conducts the semen. |
|
|