1) Digestive system component
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A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile. Bile, required for the digestion of food, is secreted by the liver into passages that carry bile toward the hepatic duct, which joins with the cystic duct (carrying bile to and from the gallbladder) to form the common bile duct, which opens into the intestine. The biliary...
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(from the article `fascioliasis`) infection of humans and grass-grazing animals, caused by the liver fluke Fasciola hepatica, a small parasitic flatworm that lives in the bile ducts ... The common bile duct averages about 10 cm in length, and flow of bile from its lower end into the intestine is controlled by the muscular action of ... ...
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A tube through which bile passes in and out of the liver.
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Credit: Nature Publishing Group Any of the ducts by which bile is carried from the liver, first to the gall bladder and then to the duodenum (the first section of the small intestine). The bile duct system starts as tiny tubular canals called canaliculi that surround the liver cells and colle...
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<anatomy> A duct that carries bile from the liver and gallbladder to the duodenum (first part of the small intestine). ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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any of the canals or passageways that conduct bile. There are three: the hepatic duct drains bile from the liver; the cystic duct is an extension of the gallbladder and conveys bile out of that organ. These two ducts may be thought of as branches that drain into the third duct, the common bile duct, a kind of “trunk,” tha...
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Bile ducts are tubes that drain bile from the liver and into the small intestine. Bile duct cancer is rare. Another name for it is cholangiocarcinoma.
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the passage that carries bile from the liver to the small intestine.
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A duct conveying bile from the liver via the gall bladder to the intestine.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. any of the ducts conveying bile between the liver and the intestine, including hepatic, cystic, and common bile ducts. Synonyms: common bile duct, ductus biliaris, biliary ducts
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The bile duct is the tube which carries bile from your liver to your gall bladder. Bile helps digest food.
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Duct that discharges digestive fluids (bile) from the liver into the small intestine.
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Tube which carries bile from the gall bladder to the duodenum.
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a tube that carries bile from the liver to the gallbladder and then to the small intestine
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a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
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