a muscular pear-shaped sac, lying underneath the right lobe of the liver, that stores bile and ejects it into the duodenum through the common bile duct
gallbladder in American English
(ˈgɔlˌblædər)
noun
a membranous sac closely connected by various ducts to the liver, in which excess gall, or bile, is stored and concentrated
Examples of 'gallbladder' in a sentence
gallbladder
These in turn can irritate the lining of the gallbladder or lead to a blockage.