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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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Digestive bile is forcibly extracted from the gall bladders of bears and sold on the black market for use in traditional medicine.

From Reuters

He visited his GP and underwent scans and blood tests, but his cancer was only picked up by chance when he got an infection in his gall bladder.

From BBC

Paulsen, the Bellevue Daily Harvest customer, said she continues to suffer from gastrointestinal pain related to her gall bladder removal surgery.

From Seattle Times

It includes operations such as removing a patient's gall bladder, appendix or part of the bowel.

From BBC

He then needed to have his gall bladder removed and that took place two months ago.

From BBC

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