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Definition: Gallbladder |
GallbladderNoun1. A muscular sac attached to the liver that secretes bile and stores it until needed for digestion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The pear-shaped organ that sits below the liver. Bile is concentrated and stored in the gallbladder. (references) |
Medicine | A pear-shaped sac in the interior surface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The gallbladder is a pear-shaped structure that is found attached to the liver. The bile duct is a tube that transports bile from the liver to the small intestine. The gallbladder is attached to the bile duct by a small tube called the cystic duct. Bile is collected in the gallbladder between meals and empties into the bile duct through the cystic duct during a meal. Gallbladders were also known as cholecyst.
Cholecystitis (gallbladder inflammation) causes abdominal pain. 90% of acute cholecystitis are caused by cholelithiasis, the production of gallstones.
External links
- Illustration
- Acute cholecystitis
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gallbladder."
Crosswords: Gallbladder |
| English words defined with "gallbladder": bile, biliary ♦ cholelithiasis, cholelithotomy, cystic, cystic vein ♦ gall ♦ low-fat diet ♦ referred pain ♦ vena cystica. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gallbladder": African Swine Fever ♦ Bile Ducts, Biliary Tract ♦ Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic, Cholecystogram, Oral, Cholecystography, Cholecystokinin, Cholecystostomy, Common Bile Duct Calculi ♦ endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ♦ Gallbladder Emptying, Gallbladder Neoplasms, Gallstones ♦ oral cholecystogram, oral cholecystography ♦ Postcholecystectomy Syndrome, PTC ♦ Sincalide, Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic ♦ unresectable gallbladder cancer. (references) |
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 | Salmonella typhi, the bacterium responsible for causing Typhoid Fever, has a preference for the gallbladder, and if present will colonize the surface of gallstones, which is how people become long term carriers of the disease. Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of cryptosporidiosis, gallbladder. Paraffin-embedded section shows numerous Cryptosporidium organisms at luminal surfaces of epithelial cells. Patient had AIDS. Parasite. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Can cause gallbladder disease. (references) | |
Gallbladder disease and gallstones. (references) | ||
Obesity also decreases gallbladder emptying. (references) | ||
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| "Gallbladder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gallbladder" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
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Expressions using "gallbladder": Gallbladder Emptying ♦ Gallbladder Neoplasms ♦ localized gallbladder cancer ♦ unresectable gallbladder cancer. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "gallbladder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fshikëz e tëmthit (gall). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | жлъчен мехур. (various references) | |
Czech | žluèník (gall bladder). (various references) | |
Danish | galdeblære, vesica fellea. (various references) | |
Dutch | plicae tunicae mucosae (folds of gallbladder). (various references) | |
Finnish | sappirakko. (various references) | |
French | galle (gall, plant gall), vésicule biliaire (gall-bladder). (various references) | |
German | gallenblase (gall-bladder). (various references) | |
Greek | χοληδόχοσ κύστισ. (various references) | |
Italian | cistifellea. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 胆嚢炎 (cholesystitis, inflammation of the gallbladder). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た"のうえ" (cholesystitis, inflammation of the gallbladder). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allbladdergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prega de vesícula biliar (folds of gallbladder). (various references) | |
Russian | желчный пузырь (gall bladder, gall-bladder). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žučna kesa (gall bladder). (various references) | |
Spanish | vesícula biliar (gall-bladder), vesícula (air bladder, bladder, vesicle). (various references) | |
Swedish | gallblåsa (gall, gall bladder). (various references) | |
Thai | ถุงน้ำ"ี. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | жовчний міхур (gall). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gallbladder": gallbladders. (additional references) | |
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"Gallbladder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: galbladder, gallbadder, gallbaldder, gallblader. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gallbladder" (pronounced gô"lbla'der) |
| 4 | -l a' d er | stepladder. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-d-e-g-l-l-l-r" | |
-2 letters: glabellar. | |
-3 letters: glabella, gradable. | |
-4 letters: abraded, addable, algebra, ballade, bladder, garbled, gladder, labella. | |
-5 letters: abrade, aglare, alegar, arable, argled, badder, badged, badger, balded, balder, ballad, balled, baller, barded, barged, begall, beglad, bladed, blared, daedal, gabled, gadder, galled, garbed, garble, gelada, glared, graded, laager, ladder, ladled, ladler, lalled, larded, raddle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-d-e-g-l-l-l-r" | |
+1 letter: gallbladders. | |
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