a muscular pear-shaped sac, lying underneath the right lobe of the liver, that stores bile and ejects it into the duodenum through the common bile duct
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gall•bladder or gall blad•der /ˈgɔlˌblædɚ/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Anatomya pouch or sac attached to the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
gall•blad•der
(gôl′blad′ər),USA pronunciation n. [Anat.]
- Anatomya pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.
- gall1 + bladder 1670–80
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