BILE DUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bile duct mean? 

• BILE DUCT (noun)
  The noun BILE DUCT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BILE DUCT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BILE DUCT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

bile duct; common bile duct

Hypernyms ("bile duct" is a kind of...):

canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)

Meronyms (parts of "bile duct"):

musculus sphincter ductus choledochi (the smooth muscle sphincter of the common bile duct)

Holonyms ("bile duct" is a part of...):

liver (large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes)

 Context examples 

Gallstones are one of the most common causes of blocked bile ducts.

(Bile Duct Diseases, NIH)

A malignant neoplasm that has spread to the extrahepatic bile ducts from another anatomic site.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts, NCI Thesaurus)

Combination of hepatocytes and bile duct epithelium lesions

(Mouse Hepatocholangiocellular Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A procedure to x-ray the hepatic and common bile ducts.

(Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, NCI Dictionary)

Carcinomas that arise from the extrahepatic bile ducts are adenocarcinomas, adenosquamous carcinomas, squamous cell carcinomas, small cell carcinomas, or mucoepidermoid carcinomas.

(Bile Duct Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Cancer of the bile duct outside of the liver is much more common.

(Bile Duct Cancer, NIH)

A dilation of the duodenal papilla that is the opening of the juncture of the common bile duct and the main pancreatic duct.

(ampulla of Vater, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A clinical finding about one or more characteristics of perihilar bile duct cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system as they pertain to distant metastases.

(Perihilar Bile Duct Cancer Clinical Distant Metastasis TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)

An intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma that arises from the intrahepatic large bile ducts.

(Perihilar Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Yellow pigmentation of the skin, mucous membranes and eyes due to hyperbilirubinemia caused by inspissated bile plugs in the bile ducts during the perinatal period.

(Perinatal Jaundice due to Inspissated Bile Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)