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

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

From BBC

It wasn't long before he had removed the troublesome gall bladder with the help of his robotic assistant.

From BBC

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

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