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biliary /bil·i·a·ry/ (bil´e-ar″e) pertaining to the bile, to the bile ducts, or to the gallbladder.

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bil·i·ar·y (bl-r)

adj.

1. Of or relating to bile, the bile ducts, or the gallbladder.

2. Transporting bile.

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Biliary

Of bile or of the gallbladder and bile ducts that transport bile and make up the biliary system or tract.

Mentioned in: Cholestasis, Liver Disease

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biliary

[bil′ē·er′ē]

pertaining to bile or to the gallbladder and bile ducts, which transport bile. These are often called the biliary system and biliary tract . Also bilious. See also bile, biliary calculus.

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biliary

pertaining to the bile, to the bile ducts, or to the gallbladder. See also bile duct.

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biliary excretion

removal in the bile of substances including drugs, toxins, hormones or pigments, or their breakdown products. These are delivered to the duodenum and removed in the feces.

biliary fever

see babesiosis.

biliary fibrosis

one of the three forms of hepatic fibrosis; largely confined to the portal triads; see also bile duct fibrosis.

biliary infarct

areas of hepatic fibrosis that physically resemble vascular infarcts but are related to damaged bile ducts.

interlobular biliary duct

see bile duct.

biliary obstruction

obstruction of biliary ducts may be intra- or extrahepatic, and intraluminal (calculi) or by external compression by tumor mass or cicatricial contraction, or more commonly in food animals by migrating ascarid larvae in the bile ducts or by cholangitis caused by Fasciola hepatica or Dichrocoelium dendriticum. Jaundice is the outstanding clinical sign of the condition. See also cholestasis.

biliary salts

see bile salt.

biliary stones

see cholelithiasis.

biliary tract

the organs, ducts, etc., participating in secretion (the liver), storage (the gallbladder, if present), and delivery (hepatic and bile ducts) of bile into the duodenum.