Englishgallbladder
plural gallbladders
Definition
- : a membranous muscular sac in which bile from the liver is concentrated and stored before being passed to the intestinal duodenum //After a meal, the gallbladder contracts and injects several tablespoons of bile into the small intestines, where the detergent-like bile salts break up fats. — David Schardt //For reasons not yet entirely clear, many people, women more often than men, are predisposed to forming stones in their gallbladder. — Sherwin B. Nuland
First Known Use
1585, in the meaning defined abovegallbladder
plural gallbladders
Definition
- : a membranous muscular sac in which bile from the liver is concentrated and stored before being passed to the intestinal duodenum //After a meal, the gallbladder contracts and injects several tablespoons of bile into the small intestines, where the detergent-like bile salts break up fats. — David Schardt //For reasons not yet entirely clear, many people, women more often than men, are predisposed to forming stones in their gallbladder. — Sherwin B. Nuland
First Known Use
1585, in the meaning defined above