bile duct

nounAnatomy.

a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.

Origin of bile duct

First recorded in 1765–75

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In 2018, Jane died after a 15-month battle with bile duct cancer.
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Earlier that week, Brack had been diagnosed with late-stage cancer in his bile duct, a tube that connects the liver to the small intestine.
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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.
Jobs’s Unorthodox Treatment | Sharon Begley | October 6, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
Extending along the ventral border of the liver is a long narrow duct, apparently the bile duct, bd.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. Reese
In a lateral projection of this mass of mesoblast 13 lies a small, circular opening, the bile duct, bd.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. Reese

In more anterior sections the bile duct is larger in cross section, being about one-half the diameter of the oesophagus.
Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator | Albert M. Reese
The principal duct enters the duedenum with the bile-duct, and there is often a second small duct opening separately.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 | Various
A paralysis of the bile duct produces a similar jaundice, but without pain.
Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus Darwin

bile duct

Any of the passages that carry bile from the liver or gallbladder to the duodenum.

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