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Glossary Flashcards

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Cholangitis

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Inflammation of the bile ducts

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Cholecystectomy

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Surgical removal of the gallbladder

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Cholecystokinin

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Hormone that stimulates gallbladder contraction

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Choledocholithiasis

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Calculi located within the bile duct

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Common bile duct

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Duct that Carrie’s bile from the cystic and hepatic ducts to the duodenum

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Cystic duct

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Duct of the gall bladder that joins with the hepatic duct to form the common bile duct

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Cholelithiasis

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Formation or presence of stones within the gallbladder

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Gallbladder

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Pear-Shaped sac responsible for storing bile until it is released through cystic duct

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Pneumobilia

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Air within the bile ducts

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Sludge

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Solid semisolid or thickened bile within the gallbladder or bile duct

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Phrygian cap

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Fold within the gallbladder fundus

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Sonographic Murphy sign

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Pain over the gallbladder when the ultrasound transducer is used to compress the right upper quadrant

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Junctional fold

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Fold within the neck or body of the gallbladder

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Cholecystitis

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Acute or chronic inflammation of the gallbladder

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Hartmans pouch

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GB folds on
itself)

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PHRYGIAN CAP

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  • when the fundus of the gallbladder kinks or folds back on the body
17
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AGENESIS of GALLBLADDER-

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absence of the gallbladder

18
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MELANOMA

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is the most common tumor to metastasize to gallbladder

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