NOUN
- a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion
How To Use gall bladder In A Sentence
- Acute cholecystitis may cause the gall bladder to adhere to the adjacent jejunum or duodenum.
- The single-incision surgery team at SLU Hospital has already performed a number of gastrointestinal procedures, including appendectomies, gall bladder removals and partial colectomies. Newswise: Latest News
- If these cause symptoms, the gall bladder may need removal - which means another op. The Sun
- In gall bladder filling after a test meal, V r e s reflects maximum gall bladder volume.
- The digestion of fat also requires bile salts, delivered to the duodenum in bile from the liver, via the gall bladder.
- Choledocolithiasis is a relatively frequent problem arising in approximately 15% of patients with stones in the gall bladder.
- So the bile, or gall, drains from the liver through bile ducts, collects in your gall bladder, and the gall bladder squirts it out on request.
- A scan showed an abnormal gall bladder. The Sun
- QI have a recurring burning pain from a scar that is a result of a gall bladder operation 20 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
- She had an operation to remove a stone from her gall bladder.
