gallbladder

or gall blad·der

[ gawl-blad-er ]

noun

, Anatomy.

1. a pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated.

gallbladder

/ gôl′blăd′ər /

1. A small, pear-shaped muscular sac in most vertebrates in which bile is stored. The gallbladder is located beneath the liver and secretes bile into the duodenum of the small intestine.

gallbladder

1. A small, muscular sac located under the liver . Bile is stored in the gallbladder until it is needed by the small intestine for digestion . ( See digestive system .)

Word History and Origins

Origin of gallbladder¹

First recorded in 1670–80; gall ¹ + bladder

Example Sentences

With the snake’s blood thing, they put the gallbladder in a glass and mull it around with a chopstick, and then you drink it with this very strong liquor.

From Outside Online

Not only was she arrested, but while she was sitting in a Florida jail for almost two days, the 32-year-old Marine veteran missed an important surgery to remove her gallbladder.

From Time

This means they might be able to predict if the injected human cells end up in a “boring” area, like the gallbladder, or a more “sensitive” area, like the brain.

From Singularity Hub 

Bile is a yellowish-greenish fluid released from the gallbladder into the intestine to help in the digesting of fats.

From Popular-Science

The trauma surgeonRemoving a patient’s gallbladder or appendix is routine stuff for Daniel Hagler, an acute care surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital in New York.

From Popular-Science

The surgery removes the right side of the pancreas, the gallbladder, and parts of the stomach, bile duct, and small intestine.

From The Daily Beast

But not just gallbladder patients benefit from the less invasive approaches at Cleveland Clinic.

From The Daily Beast