bile duct

bile duct
bile duct n a duct by which bile passes from the liver or gallbladder to the duodenum

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any of the ducts that convey bile from the liver. Bile is drained from the liver cells by many small ducts that unite to form the main bile duct of the liver, the hepatic duct. This joins the cystic duct, which leads from the gall bladder, to form the common bile duct, which drains into the duodenum.

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biliary duct 1. any of the ducts that convey bile in and from the liver; see ductus choledochus, ductus cysticus, ductus hepaticus dexter, and ductus hepaticus sinister. 2. specifically, the ductus choledochus.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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