Chapter 4- The Bile Ducts Flashcards
What is acute pancreatitis?
Inflammation of the pancreas secondary to leakage of pancreatic enzyme
What is the ampulla of Vater?
The merging point of the pancreatic duct and common bile duct (before sphincter of oddi)
What is biliary atresia?
A congenital disease described as the narrowing or obliteration of all or a portion of the biliary tree
___________ is a vital digestive fluid.
Bile
What organ produces bile?
The liver
What is the major component of bile?
Cholesterol
What is the function of the biliary tree?
To provide a conduit for bile to drain from the liver into the small intestine
Where does bile first accumulate?
Small intrahepatic biliary radicales
From the small biliary radicles, bile flows to where?
into either the right or left hepatic duct.
Right and left hepatic duct unite to form what vessel?
Common hepatic duct
What organ stores and concentrates bile?
Gallbladder
What vessel attaches the gallbladder to the biliary tree?
Cystic duct
The cystic duct contains tiny structures to prevent the cystic duct from collapsing or distending, what are the called?
Spiral valves of heister
When stimulated by ______________—produced by the duodenum—the gallbladder contracts and empties bile into the biliary tree.
Cholecystokinin
Bile empties from the gallbladder into what vessel toward the duodenum?
Common bile duct
