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gall bladder

British

noun

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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Despite her progress, she still has to take fentanyl patches daily, faces losing her teeth within the next decade and will have to have her gall bladder removed.

From BBC

He chose to isolate the organ, and it expanded on his screen as the body parts surrounding it receded — the gall bladder bright green with bile, the ribs white and curved like half moons.

From New York Times

The CT had suggested a piece of gall bladder left after its removal in 2015 might be the cause of discomfort or a gall stone.

From Washington Post

Roberts' longtime partner, Lance O'Brien, confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday that Roberts died on Monday night after being hospitalized for a UTI that spread to her kidneys, liver and gall bladder.

From Fox News

“The gall bladder is normal. The pancreas is normal. The stomach, the esophagus . . . are all normal.”

From Washington Post

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