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Bladder
Bladder (urinary bladder): hollow pelvic muscular organ storing 300-500 mL of urine in humans; detrusor wall, urothelium lining, trigone base; sympathetic storage, parasympathetic voiding; disorders include incontinence and urothelial cancer.
Bladder augmentation
Bladder augmentation, also known as augmentation cystoplasty or enterocystoplasty, is a urologic operation that enlarges the bladder with a detubularized intestinal patch, usually ileum, to create a low-pressure reservoir.
Bladder cancer
Bladder cancer, usually urothelial carcinoma, is uncontrolled cell growth in the bladder lining. Key facts: hematuria as main symptom, smoking as leading risk factor, NMIBC versus MIBC, 635,000 global cases in 2024, and recent FDA immunotherapy approvals.
Bladder cell
Bladder cell: the cell types of the urinary bladder wall, chiefly urothelial basal, intermediate, and umbrella cells, plus fibroblasts, smooth muscle, immune, endothelial, and neural cells mapped by single-cell RNA sequencing.
Bladder irrigation
Bladder irrigation is a urological procedure that flushes the urinary bladder with sterile fluid, usually through a catheter, to clear blood clots and debris, keep the catheter draining, and deliver medication.
Bladder pain
Bladder pain: suprapubic pain, pressure, or discomfort related to the bladder, usually worse with filling; core of bladder pain syndrome (interstitial cystitis), a diagnosis of exclusion treated stepwise.
Blade
A blade is the flat, cutting portion of a knife, sword, or similar tool or weapon, finished with a very thin edge used for cutting.
Blade (1998 film)
Blade is a 1998 American action-horror film directed by Stephen Norrington, in which Wesley Snipes plays a half-vampire hunter battling a vampire society led by Stephen Dorff.
Blade (character)
Blade (Eric Brooks), Marvel Comics' dhampir vampire hunter created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan in Tomb of Dracula #10; the Daywalker of the 1998 film and 2024 Blood Hunt, distinct from other Blade namesakes.
Blade (franchise)
Blade franchise: three New Line Cinema films (1998-2004) starring Wesley Snipes as Marvel's vampire hunter Eric Brooks, grossing $418 million; also the stalled Mahershala Ali MCU reboot.
Blade (Honkai: Star Rail)
Blade (刃) is a limited 5★ Honkai: Star Rail character, first Wind Destruction, HP-scaling; kit spends own HP for Hellscape, Talent follow-ups, and an HP-loss Ultimate; reworked in 3.4, Mortenax Blade (Nihility: Fire) in 4.3.
Blade (unproduced film)
Blade (unproduced film): the Marvel Studios MCU reboot announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2019 with Mahershala Ali, also called the Blade reboot; it lost two directors, four release dates, and was confirmed dead by Ali in 2026.
Blade & Bastard
Blade & Bastard (ブレイド＆バスタード) is a dark fantasy light novel by Kumo Kagyu (Goblin Slayer) with art by so-bin (Overlord), set in the Wizardry RPG universe, published by Drecom's DRE Novels since December 2022, with a manga by Makoto Fugetsu and an announced anime.
Blade & Soul (블레이드 앤 소울)
Blade & Soul (블레이드 앤 소울) is NCSOFT's wuxia martial-arts PC MMORPG, released in Korea June 2012, China 2013, the West 2016; known for fighting-game-style action combat, arena PvP, and spin-offs Blade & Soul 2, Revolution, NEO, and Heroes.
Blade battery
The Blade Battery is a lithium iron phosphate traction battery developed by Chinese automaker BYD and launched in March 2020, with long blade-shaped cells packed directly into the battery pack.
Blade coating
Blade coating, also known as doctor blading or knife-over-edge coating, is a solution deposition method in which a blade spreads a liquid film whose thickness is set by the blade gap and coating speed.
Blade element momentum theory
Blade element momentum theory is an aerodynamic method that predicts the thrust, torque, and power of a rotor or propeller by combining blade element theory with momentum theory.
Blade element theory
Blade element theory is an aerodynamic method that models a propeller, rotor, or turbine blade as spanwise airfoil segments to compute thrust, torque, and power.
Blade II
Blade II, also known as Blade 2, is a 2002 American action horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro, the second installment of the Blade trilogy.
Blade Implantation
Blade implantation, or the blade-vent implant, is an endosseous dental implant with a narrow wedge-shaped vented body, devised by Leonard Linkow in the 1960s and the most widely used implant design until the 1980s.
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人-IMMORTAL-)
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人-IMMORTAL-, Mugen no Junin: Immortal) is a 2019 Liden Films ONA adapting Hiroaki Samura's samurai manga in 24 Amazon Prime Video episodes about the immortal ronin Manji and Rin's revenge on the Ittō-ryū.
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人)
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人, Mugen no Jūnin) is Hiroaki Samura's samurai manga serialized in Monthly Afternoon 1993–2012, complete in 30 volumes; Rin Asano hires the immortal ronin Manji for revenge against the Ittō-ryū, with anime, a 2017 Miike film, and a Bakumatsu-era sequel.
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人) (film)
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人, Mugen no Junin) is Takashi Miike's 2017 live-action samurai film adapted from Hiroaki Samura's manga, starring Takuya Kimura as the immortal swordsman Manji; it premiered Out of Competition at Cannes 2017 and opened in Japan on April 29, 2017.
Blade of Vengeance (白衣公卿)
Blade of Vengeance (白衣公卿, aka Jin Yi Xing 锦衣行) is a Chinese Yongle-era wuxia series adapted from Fu Lan's novel, directed by Lin Shui Jing and Li Cai, starring Gong Jun and Wang Yuwen, filmed 2025, slated for CCTV/Tencent Video in 2026.
Blade pitch control
Blade pitch control is the mechanism a wind turbine uses to rotate its rotor blades about their long axes, regulating aerodynamic power, rotor speed, and structural loads.
Blade row interaction
Blade row interaction is the unsteady aerodynamic coupling between adjacent rotor and stator blade rows in a turbomachine, arising from their relative motion and producing fluctuating loads, noise, and losses.
Blade Runner
Blade Runner (1982), Ridley Scott's neo-noir adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, stars Harrison Ford hunting replicants in 2019 Los Angeles; a box-office disappointment that became a cult classic and cyberpunk landmark.
Blade Runner (1997 video game)
Blade Runner (1997 video game), Westwood Studios point-and-click adventure published by Virgin Interactive, released October 31, 1997 on 4 CD-ROMs. Player Ray McCoy hunts randomized replicants alongside the 1982 film's story, with 13 endings; re-released on GOG 2019 and as Nightdive's Enhanced Edition 2022.
Blade Runner (franchise)
Blade Runner (franchise): science fiction media franchise from Ridley Scott's 1982 film, adapted from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, spanning Blade Runner 2049, Black Lotus, Titan Comics, the 1997 Westwood game, and the Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099.
Blade Runner (soundtrack)
Blade Runner soundtrack, Vangelis score for Ridley Scott's 1982 film, improvised on synthesizers (Yamaha CS-80) at Nemo Studios, London; official release delayed until 1994, expanded in 2007, hugely influential on electronic film music.