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

He had a procedure which resulted in the removal of part of his pancreas, the duodenum, the gall bladder and part of his liver.

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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.

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Two police officers attended at about 19:20 and had assessed his death as "non-suspicious" on account of an operation wound from recent gall bladder surgery.

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

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Bile duct cancer affects the bile ducts, which are small tubes within the digestive system which connect organs including the liver and gall bladder.

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