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inspissation
Plugging of a tubular lumen–eg, bile ducts, intestine, with a thickened viscid material having a decreased fluid content
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It is commonly due to impaction (sticking) of a gallstone within the neck of the gall bladder, leading to inspissation of bile, bile stasis , and infection by gut organisms.
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