Bile Duct

Definition: Bile Duct

Bile Duct

Noun

1. A duct formed by the hepatic and cystic ducts; opens into the duodenum.

Specialty Definitions: Bile Duct

Domain	Definitions
Health	A tube through which bile passes in and out of the liver. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Bile duct

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile.

Bile, required for the digestion of food, is excreted 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 top half of the common bile duct is associated with the liver, while the bottom half of the common bile duct is associated with the pancreas, through which it passes on its way to the intestine. It opens in the part of the intestine called the duodenum into a structure called the ampulla.

Blockage of the bile duct by a cancer or scarring from injury prevents the bile from being transported to the intestine and the bile accumulates in the blood. This condition is called jaundice and the skin and eyes becomes yellow from the accumulated bile in the blood. This condition also causes severe itchiness.

Jaundice is commonly causes by conditions such as pancreatic cancer caused by blockage of the bile duct passing through the cancerous portion of the pancreas, bile duct cancer, blockage by a stone in patients with gallstones and from scarring after injury to the bile duct during gallbladder removal.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bile duct."

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Synonym: Bile Duct

Synonym: common bile duct (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bile Duct

English words defined with "bile duct": common bile duct, Cystic duct ♦ Foregut ♦ Gall duct ♦ Hepatic colic, hepatic duct ♦ Midgut, musculus sphincter ductus choledochi. (references)

Specialty definitions using "bile duct": 1-Naphthylisothiocyanate ♦ Adenoma, Bile Duct ♦ Bile Duct Neoplasms, Bile Duct Obstruction, Extrahepatic, Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic, Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic ♦ Caroli's Disease, Choledochostomy, Common Bile Duct Calculi, Common Bile Duct Diseases, Common Bile Duct Neoplasms, Common Bile Duct Obstruction ♦ endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ♦ Hepatic Duct, Common, Hepatitis A Virus, Human ♦ Oddi's Sphincter ♦ percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography ♦ Retroperitoneal Fibrosis ♦ Sphincter of Oddi, Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic, stage I pancreatic cancer ♦ Vater's Ampulla. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bile Duct

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I am Jack's raging bile duct. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)
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Commercial Usage: Bile Duct

Domain	Title
Books	Common Bile Duct Exploration: Intraoperative Investigations in Biliary Tract Surgery (Developments in Surgery, No 6) (reference) Gallbladder and Bile Duct Imaging: A Clinical Radiologic Approach (reference) Vanishing Bile Duct Syndrome: Pathophysiology & Treatment (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Bile Duct

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Line drawing showing large intestine, duodenum, gall bladder, liver, bile duct, esophagus, pancreas and stomach.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Bile Duct

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Training in laparoscopic common bile duct exploration is encouraged. (references)
		An injured common bile duct can leak bile and cause a painful and potentially dangerous infection. (references)
		Monooctanoin has been used primarily for dissolution of bile duct stones retained following surgery. (references)
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Expressions: Bile Duct

Expressions using "bile duct": Bile Duct Neoplasms ♦ Common Bile Duct ♦ Common Bile Duct Calculi ♦ Common Bile Duct Diseases ♦ Common Bile Duct Neoplasms ♦ Common Bile Duct Obstruction. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bile Duct

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
bile duct	71	bile duct injury	4
bile duct cancer	60	bile duct liver	3
common bile duct	19	bile duct stricture	3
bile duct stone	14	adenocarcinoma bile duct	3
bile duct obstruction	12	bile duct gall in stone	2
bile duct disease	8	bile duct enlarged	2
vanishing bile duct syndrome	5	bile duct in stone	2
bile duct tumor	5	bile duct problem	2
bile duct surgery	5	anastomosis bile duct en roux y	2
bile duct stone symptom	4	bile duct inflammation	2
		bile duct cancer treatment	2
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Modern Translations: Bile Duct

Language		Translations for "bile duct"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		galdevej, ductus choledochus. (various references)

Dutch		galgang, galbuis, ductus choledochus (choledochus), choledochus (choledochus). (various references)

Finnish		sappiteiden syöpä (bile duct cancer). (various references)

French		canal cholédoque, canal biliaire. (various references)

German		Gallenweg, Ductus choledochus, Choledochus (choledochus). (various references)

Greek		χολικός πόρος, χοληδόχος πόρος (choledochus). (various references)

Italian		coledoco, canale biliare. (various references)

Pig Latin		ilebay uctday

Portuguese		canal colédoco, canal biliário. (various references)

Spanish		conducto colédoco, conducto biliar, canal biliar. (various references)

Swedish		gallgång. (various references)
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Misspellings: Bile Duct

Misspellings
	"Bile Duct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bule duct. (additional references)
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Anagrams: Bile Duct

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-i-l-t-u"
	-1 letter: ductile.
	-2 letters: butled, delict, deltic, dilute, dulcet, luetic.
	-3 letters: bidet, bield, blite, blued, bluet, build, built, butle, cebid, cited, clued, cubed, cubit, culet, culti, cutie, debit, debut, edict, educt, lubed, lucid, ludic, luted, telic, tilde, tiled, tubed, utile.
	-4 letters: bedu, belt, bice, bide, bile, bite, bled, blet, blue, bute, cedi, ceil, celt, cite, clit.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-i-l-t-u"
	+2 letters: deductible, lubricated, outclimbed, subdialect.
	+3 letters: binucleated, conductible, deductibles, educability, subdialects, tuberculoid, umbilicated.
	+4 letters: destructible, discountable, nightclubbed, reducibility, relubricated, uncalibrated.
	+5 letters: deductibility, educabilities, excludability, ineducability, multibranched, nondeductible, unpredictable, unpredictably.
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