The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biliary \Bil"ia*ry\ (b[i^]l"y[.a]*r[y^]; 106), a. [L. bilis bile: cf. F. biliaire.] (Physiol.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to bile," 1731, from French biliaire, from bile (see bile). Meaning "bilious in mood or temperament" is recorded from 1837.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to bile
WordNet
adj. relating to or containing bile [syn: bilious]
relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "biliary".
In minute doses Blood-root is a valuable alterative, acting upon the biliary secretion and improving the circulation and digestion.
When I was working in pediatrics, we had a little girl who had biliary atresia, which is usually a fatal-type thing.
He would naturally think twice before he gave an emetic or cathartic which evacuated his own pocket, and be sparing of the cholagogues that emptied the biliary ducts of his own wallet, unless he were sure they were needed.
The special dietetic value of Lemons consists in their potash salts, the citrate, malate, and tartrate, which are respectively antiscorbutic, and of assistance in promoting biliary digestion.
Borgeois speaks of a lumbricoid worm found in the biliary passages, and another in the air passages.
This impure, venous blood, surcharged with biliary elements, which must be withdrawn from it, is freely poured into the minute network of this glandular organ.
They could: and watch it all the way down, swallow a pin sometimes come out of the ribs years after, tour round the body changing biliary duct spleen squirting liver gastric juice coils of intestines like pipes.
There may be gastric colic in the stomach, biliary colic due to irregular contractions of the bile ducts, renal colic in the kidneys, etc.