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gall bladder

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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The pair have a wedding story for the ages: “We were married in the hospital after my emergency gall bladder removal!”

On April 3rd, Banks announced that he has late-stage gall bladder cancer and has only months to live.

The drainage tube to the bilary duct, which connected the intestines to the gall bladder, also failed.

This increased flow is beneficial in clearing out any bile stagnating in the gall-bladder.

If they were telling the truth I realized that labor's gall bladder had done bu'sted and we didn't have long to live.

The white man told him it meant that he "had done bu'sted his gall bladder and didn't have long to live."

There was a considerable quantity of very dark bile in the gall-bladder.

Bilateral malignant tumours of the ovaries are sometimes secondary to primary cancer of the gall-bladder and the breast.

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