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Digestive System > Biliary Tract > Bile Ducts > Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic > Common Bile Duct

Preferred term

Common Bile Duct  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Choledochus

Note

  • inflammation = CHOLANGITIS + COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES; calculi = COMMON BILE DUCT CALCULI see GALLSTONES but consider also CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS

Scope note

  • The largest bile duct. It is formed by the junction of the CYSTIC DUCT and the COMMON HEPATIC DUCT.

In other languages

  • sapenjohdin

    Finnish

  • ductus choledochus
  • hankinnainen värinäön häiriö
  • protanomalia
  • protanopi (rödblindhet)
  • sappitiehyt
  • siniheikkous
  • sinisokeus
  • viherheikkous
  • vihersokeus
  • yhteinen sappitiehyt
  • Gallgång, gemensam

    Swedish

  • Ductus choledochus

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003135

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