GALL-BLADDER
\ɡˈɔːlblˈadə], \ɡˈɔːlblˈadə], \ɡ_ˈɔː_l_b_l_ˈa_d_ə]\
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A membranous, pyriform reservoir, lodged in a superficial depression at the inferior surface of the right lobe of the liver. It receives, by the hepatic and cystic ducts, a portion of the bile secreted by the liver, when the stomach is empty, which becomes in it more acrid, bitter, and thick. It receives an artery, called the cystic. Its veins empty into the vena porta. Its nerves come from the hepatic plexus, and its lymphatic vessels join those of the liver.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The pear-shaped reservoir for the bile, on the under surface of the liver.
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An egg-shaped or pear-shaped sac, about four inches long, in the human subject, situated in a fossa on the lower surface of the liver, to which it is attached; it serves as a receptacle for the bile, to which it adds a mucous secretion of its own, and then discharges it into the ductus choledochus communis.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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