A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
Solid material that forms in the gallbladder or common bile duct. Gallstones are made of cholesterol or other substances found in the gallbladder. They may occur as one large stone or as many small ones, and vary from the size of a golf ball to a grain of sand. Also called cholelith.
a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts
a concretion formed in the gallbladder
a solid crystal deposit that forms in the gallbladder, which is a pear-shaped organ that stores bile salts until they are needed to help digest fatty foods
small, hard pathological concretion, composed chiefly of cholesterol, calcium salts, and bile pigments, formed in the gall bladder or in a bile duct ( Liver Formula)
Solid masses that form in the gallbladder or bile ducts. Stones are composed largely of cholesterol and bilirubin in varied proportions.
Pieces of solid material that develop in the gall bladder when substances in the bile, primarily cholesterol, and bile pigments form hard, crystal-like particles.
A round, hard mass of cholesterol, bile, or calcium salts that is found in the gallbladder or a bile duct.
A hard mass of cholesterol, calcium bilirubinate, and calcium carbonate formed in the gallbladder or biliary passages.
solid material, like a stone, that forms in the gallbladder or the tube that connects the gallbladder and liver to the intestine (called the common bile duct). Gallstones are made of cholesterol or other substances secreted by the liver into the gallbladder.
A concentration of material formed in the gallbladder or bile duct.
(Biliary Calculus): Stone-like objects in either the gallbladder or bile ducts, composed mainly of cholesterol and occasionally mixed with calcium. Most gallstones do not cause problems until they become larger or they begin obstructing bile ducts, at which point gallbladder "attacks" begin to occur. Symptoms usually occur after a fatty meal and at night. The following are the most common ones: steady, severe pain in the middle-upper abdomen or below the ribs on the right; pain in the back between the shoulder blades; pain under the right shoulder; nausea; vomiting; fever; chills; jaundice; abdominal bloating; intolerance of fatty foods; belching or gas; indigestion.
a gallbladder or bileduct concretion composed of cholesterol, occasionally mixed with calcium
A stone-like mass that forms in the gallbladder.
In medicine, gallstones (choleliths) are crystalline bodies formed within the body by accretion or concretion of normal or abnormal bile components.