gallbladder
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈɡɔlˌblædər/
- Specialized
:
vesícula biliar
- The doctor explained that the gallbladder stores bile, which helps in digesting fats.
- gallbladder removal
- gallbladder wall
- patients with a gallbladder
You can have exquisite right chest or right shoulder pain from a gallbladder or liver issue.
- You can have exquisite right chest or right shoulder pain from a gallbladder or liver issue.
- Or in some cases people have had their gallbladder removed, they're fine, and then diarrhoea starts later.
- So, you know, I, I started having problems with my gallbladder and that causes you pain in your side back in August.
- And he goes to the hospital and apparently he's got to get his gallbladder removed.
- This all on record and my gallbladder was destroyed.
- the liver and the gallbladder. Oftentimes because of the constant
- So they are Constipation, celiac disease and gallbladder dysfunction.
- Lemon oil is great for digestion for your gallbladder and cleansing your lymphatic system.
- And his mother is going to die in that same hospital with a failed gallbladder operation.
- Typically on our elective days we'll do things like hernias, gallbladders, but also things like breast cancer or thyroid cancer.
- Osteoporosis, gallbladder disease, poor mobility, infertility, sleep apnea, the list goes on.
Examples
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Well, the gallbladder is a tiny little bag that lives underneath the right lobe of the liver.
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The doctor says you have too much bile in your gallbladder.
Fiction book (1997) -
So, you know, I, I started having problems with my gallbladder and that causes you pain in your side back in August.
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Alex, from Chester, has been waiting for a gallbladder operation for nearly six months.
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She said she had her gallbladder removed but never cancer.
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I've also had a lot of abdominal pain and had my gallbladder removed a year ago.
Blog text (5) -
My lawyer Charles Garry is in a hospital in Oakland having undergone gallbladder surgery.
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Today, approximately 1.2 million gallbladder removals are performed each year using minimally invasive techniques.
Academic text (1998) -
Lemon oil is great for digestion for your gallbladder and cleansing your lymphatic system.
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There had been a year when Erma's mother, recovering from a gallbladder operation, hadn't done any housework.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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3.9
A small organ under the liver that stores bile until it enters the intestine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gallbladder comes from gall, an old word for the bitter fluid 'bile', and bladder, meaning a small sac that holds liquid, so it literally means the small sac that stores bile until the body needs it for digestion.