gallbladder
or gall blad·der
a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
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How to use gallbladder in a sentence
With the snake’s blood thing, they put the gallbladder in a glass and mull it around with a chopstick, and then you drink it with this very strong liquor.
Tim Cahill Is an Outside Legend. Thank Goodness He Didn’t Die. | jversteegh | December 28, 2021 | Outside OnlineNot only was she arrested, but while she was sitting in a Florida jail for almost two days, the 32-year-old Marine veteran missed an important surgery to remove her gallbladder.
‘It Was All Worth It.’ After Being Injured and Arrested by Police, These George Floyd Protesters Now Feel Vindicated | Melissa Chan | April 21, 2021 | TimeThis means they might be able to predict if the injected human cells end up in a “boring” area, like the gallbladder, or a more “sensitive” area, like the brain.
Scientists Grew Human Cells in Monkey Embryos, and Yes, It’s an Ethical Minefield | Shelly Fan | April 20, 2021 | Singularity HubBile is a yellowish-greenish fluid released from the gallbladder into the intestine to help in the digesting of fats.
Your liver does more than you give it credit for | By Marie-Pierre Hasne/The Conversation | March 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe trauma surgeonRemoving a patient’s gallbladder or appendix is routine stuff for Daniel Hagler, an acute care surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in New York.
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The surgery removes the right side of the pancreas, the gallbladder, and parts of the stomach, bile duct, and small intestine.
But not just gallbladder patients benefit from the less invasive approaches at Cleveland Clinic.
British Dictionary definitions for gall bladder
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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Scientific definitions for gallbladder
[ gôl′blăd′ər ]
A small, pear-shaped muscular sac in most vertebrates in which bile is stored. The gallbladder is located beneath the liver and secretes bile into the duodenum of the small intestine.
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Cultural definitions for gallbladder
A small, muscular sac located under the liver. Bile is stored in the gallbladder until it is needed by the small intestine for digestion. (See digestive system.)
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