A muscular sac attached to the liver that secretes bile and stores it until needed for digestion

Usage examples of gallbladder.

The commonest form is that known as catarrhal jaundice, due to an inflammation or catarrh of the bile-duct which prevents the flow of bile from the liver and gallbladder into the intestine.

She had learned to do laparoscopic gallbladders as a resident but had continued to operate on hernias using the traditional method.

For example, we now remove most gallbladders using a laparoscopic camera and four small incisions.

The second round of tests was probably more than BRadley Davis had bargained for-upper- and lowergastrointestinal series, a gallbladder study, and an intravenous pyelogram among them.

Run: part of the Gastrointestinal work-up, a series of tests, including upper GI series with small bowel follow-through, barium enema, sigmoidoscopy, liver scan, gallbladder series etc.

But selling animal body parts, including gallbladders, heads, hides, claws, and teeth, is illegal.

Busted a ring up there not long ago, seized about three hundred gallbladders and arrested twenty-five people.

Honey Buns, then blew their brains out, cut off the paws, cut out the gallbladders, and dumped the rest.

A fatty meal will stimulate the production of unusually high quantities of cholecystokinin, which will stimulate the gallbladder strongly, which will squirt a greater-than-usual supply of bile salt (the emulsifying ingredient) into the intestine, which will emulsify the fat that started the whole procedure and bring about its digestion.

Or if maybe my spleen and gallbladder are enormous from the effects of human growth hormone.

I told him I was sorry but I did not have the faintest inclination to aggravate my back jouncing out to that dadgummed old salt mine (though it isn't really my back, the doctor says, but a gallbladder business aggravated by sitting, especially in a moving car).

It stays there for an instant to gain impulse, and then the fist shoots across the body to the right, the fisted palm facing the body, to strike through a point by the area of the liver and gallbladder (fig.