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A hollow muscular organ, present in humans and most vertebrates, which receives dilute bile from the liver, concentrates it, and discharges it into...



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Figure 1.Extrahepatic biliary tract in humans.
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Figure 2.Liver and accessory gallbladders of the ductule type in the cat. (After E. A. Boyden, Amer. J. Anat., 38:177–231, 1926)
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Figure 3.Development of gallbladder (pars cystica) in human embryos. (a) 26 days after ovulation (horizon XII). (b) 28 days (XIII); 5-mm embryo. (c) 32 days (XV); 7–8 mm. (d) 35 days (XVII); 13 mm. Roman numerals indicate developmental horizons of Streeter.
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