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• a variation of gallbladder.

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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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

She had half her pancreas, bile duct and gall bladder removed, along with part of her gut and stomach.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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

The gall bladder is for us the chief swimming-bladder and Montgolfier; and the filling of it costs us nothing but a contumelious word or two from some bystander.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul