Examples from literature

• If, however, digestion is not going on, the mouth of the bile duct is closed, and in that case the bile is carried by the cystic duct to the gall bladder. 
• Into this portion opens the bile duct from the liver with the duct from the pancreas, these having been first united and then entering the intestine as a common duct. 
• It buds off from the food tube just below the stomach, so that its waste tube, the bile duct —about the size of a goose quill—opens into the upper part of the intestine. 
• The lemon juice tends to clear the bile duct. 
• The liver still dumps its wastes into the intestines through the bile duct.