Gallbladder/Biliary Tree Terminology

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Pain located in the area of the right upper quadrant in the area of the gallbladder

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Biliary colic

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The effect of dirty shadowing, reverberation, or ring down artifact caused by gas or gas bubbles produced by bacteria within the nondependent gallbladder wall

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Champagne sign

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The surgical removal of the gallbladder

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Cholesytectomy

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The hormone produced by the duodenum that causes the gallbladder to contract

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Cholecystokinin

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Partially digested food from the stomach

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Chyme

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The clinical detection of an enlarged palpable gallbladder caused by biliary obstruction in the area of the pancreatic head; typically caused by a pancreatic head mass

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Courvoisier Gallbladder

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Chronic inflammatory bowel disease that leads to thickening and scarring of the bowel walls leading to chronic pain and recurrent bowel obstructions

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Crohn Disease

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The duct that connects the gallbladder to the common hepatic duct

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Cystic Duct

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Abnormal distention of an organ with air or gas

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Emphysematous

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The presence or collection of pus

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Empyema

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An outpouching of the gallbladder neck

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Hartmann Pouch

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A condition that results in the destruction of red blood cells

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Hemolytic anemia

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A group of proliferative and degenerative gallbladder disorders which include both adenomyomatosis and cholesterolosis

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Hyperplastic Cholecystosis

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Abnormal low level of albumin in the blood; protein produced in the liver

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Hypoalbuminemia

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A fold in the neck of the gallbladder

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Junctional fold

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A condition associated with vasculitis and can affect the lymph node, skin, and mucous membrane; also referred to as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome

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Kawasaki Disease

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Pain directly over the gallbladder with applied probe pressure

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Murphy sign

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Inflammation of the peritoneal lining

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Peritonitis

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Gallbladder variant when the gallbladder fundus is folded onto itself

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Phrygian cap

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Tiny pockets within the gallbladder wall

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Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses

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A life-threatening condition caused by the body’s response to a systemic infection

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Sepsis

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Form of hemolytic anemia typically found in Africans; characterized by dysfunctional sickle-shaped red blood cells

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Sickle Cell Disease

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Folds located within the cystic duct that prevent it from collapsing and distending

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Spiral valves of Heister

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Thick sludge

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Tumefactive sludge