the bile
71bile — noun Etymology: Latin bilis; akin to Welsh bustl bile Date: 1547 1. a. either of two humors associated in old physiology with irascibility and melancholy b. a yellow or greenish viscid alkaline fluid secreted by the liver and passed into the… …
72bile salt — noun Date: 1881 1. a salt of bile acid 2. plural a dry mixture of the principal salts of the gall of the ox used as a liver stimulant and as a laxative …
73bile — A fluid made by the liver and stored in the gallbladder. Bile is excreted into the small intestine, where it helps digest fat …
74bile duct — noun Date: 1774 a duct by which bile passes from the liver or gallbladder to the duodenum …
75bile acid diarrhea — diarrhea caused by malabsorption of bile acids in the colon, most often because of disease or resection of the ileum …
76bile duct — tube that carries bile from the liver or gallbladder to the small intestines (Anatomy) …
77bile salt — Physiol. a product of a bile acid and a base, functioning as an emulsifier of lipids and fatty acids for absorption in the duodenum. [1880 85] * * * …
78bile canaliculi — biliary canaliculi fine tubular canals running between liver cells throughout the parenchyma, usually occurring singly between each adjacent pair of cells, and forming a three dimensional network of polyhedral meshes, with a single cell in each… …
79bile capillaries — 1. bile canaliculi. 2. a term sometimes used to designate the cholangioles …
80bile thrombus — a plug in one of the intrahepatic bile ducts, causing cholestasis …
