gall bladder

[gawl-blad-er]

gall·blad·der

[gawl-blad-er]
noun Anatomy.
a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
Also, gall bladder.


Origin:
1670–80; gall1 + bladder
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gall bladder
 
n
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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