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Wiktionary
- n. anatomy A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See
Illust. ofDigestive apparatus .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a muscular sac attached to the liver that stores bile (secreted by the liver) until it is needed for digestion
Examples
“It is of an oblong form, and appears to be for the purpose of containing the bile, until the proper time for it to be thrown into the stomach: -- the bile is conveyed from the gall bladder into the first portion of the small intestines, called duodenum, and from thence into the stomach.”
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