A small, pear-shaped muscular sac, located under the right lobe of the liver, in which bile secreted by the liver is stored until needed by the body for digestion. Also called cholecyst, cholecystis.
A sac situated underneath the liver, in which bile produced by the liver is stored.
A pear-shaped sac (7-10 cm long), lying underneath the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored. Bile passes (via the hepatic duct) to the gall bladder from the liver, where it is formed, and is released into the duodenum (through the common bile duct) under the influence of the hormone ‘cholecystokinin, which is secreted when food is present in the duodenum.
A roughly four-inch-long, pear-shaped organ located beneath the liver, in the upper right part of the abdomen. Its primary function is to serve as a storage reservoir for the bile produced by the liver.