COMMON BILE DUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common bile duct mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON 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 ("common 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 "common bile duct"):

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

Holonyms ("common 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 

An adenocarcinoma that arises from the distal third of the common bile duct.

(Distal 1/3 of the Common Bile Duct Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A short duct attached to the gallbladder through which the bile from the gallbladder is secreted in the common bile duct.

(Cystic duct, NCI Thesaurus)

It joins the common hepatic duct to form the common bile duct.

(Cystic duct, NCI Dictionary)

A procedure that uses an endoscope to examine and x-ray the pancreatic duct, hepatic duct, common bile duct, duodenal papilla, and gallbladder.

(Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, NCI Dictionary)

This duct joins a duct from the gallbladder to form the common bile duct, which carries bile into the small intestine when food is being digested.

(Extrahepatic bile duct, NCI Dictionary)

As your stomach and intestines digest food, your gallbladder releases bile through a tube called the common bile duct.

(Gallbladder Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Impairment of bile flow through the hepatic, cystic, or common bile ducts or Vater's ampulla.

(Extrahepatic Cholestasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The portion of the biliary tract outside the liver; the common hepatic duct joins the cystic duct to form the common bile duct.

(Extrahepatic bile duct, NCI Thesaurus)

Gallstones that are present in the common bile duct, but are usually formed in the gallbladder.

(Common Bile Duct Stone, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It ends where the cystic duct from the gall bladder joins it to form the common bile duct.

(Common hepatic duct, NCI Dictionary)