gall bladder

British  

noun

1. a muscular pear-shaped sac, lying underneath the right lobe of the liver, that stores bile and ejects it into the duodenum through the common bile duct

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Example Sentences

When Johnson underwent anesthesia for a gall bladder operation, Moyers was given responsibility to decide whether then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey should take over the president’s powers in the event of a crisis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

Remarkably however, two police officers assessed his death as non-suspicious, owing to his wound from gall bladder surgery which took place a week earlier.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025

One patient, Mariah Jacqueline Scott, 32, who lives in Highland Park, N.J., has had two hip replacements, two shoulder replacements, a splenectomy, a gall bladder removal and a tonsillectomy because of the disease.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023

Paulsen, the Bellevue Daily Harvest customer, said she continues to suffer from gastrointestinal pain related to her gall bladder removal surgery.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2022

On the under side, find the gall bladder, from which a small tube leads to the small intestine.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.