gall-bladder
(ˈgɔːlˌblædə(r))
[f. gall n.1 + bladder n.]
The vessel in the animal system which contains the gall or bile.
| 1676 J. Cooke Marrow Chirurg. 394 The Gall-Bladder is Pear-like. 1767 Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 410 An Officer received a wound in the inferior part of the Gall-Bladder. 1797 M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 253 It frequently happens that gall-stones are found in the gall-bladder after death. 1872 Huxley Phys. v. 118 Opening into the hepatic duct is seen the duct of a large oval sac, the gall-bladder. |