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Biliary  adj.  (Physiol.) Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts.
Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.






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"Biliary" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing I am inclined to do is to write a book on Miracles. I think it might do good and unload my biliary system. ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... long, slender tubules, varying in number, serving as excretory organs, entering the alimentary canal at the point of junction of chylific ventricle and ileum: said to be analogous with kidneys: biliary vessels. ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith

... here, but happily not yet infected; not yet, but it may be only a question of time before yellow fever is brought along the railways or caravan routes from the Congo or the rivers of the West Coast, where the disease is endemic. There for many years it was regarded as biliary fever or blackwater or malaria. Now that the truth is known a heavier responsibility is cast upon the already overburdened shoulders of the Sanitary Officer and the specialists in tropical diseases. Stegomyia, ...
— Sketches of the East Africa Campaign • Robert Valentine Dolbey

... is slightly aperient, and is employed with success by persons suffering from indigestion, obstructions of the viscera, congestion of the liver, spleen, biliary calculi, and gravel. ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black



Words linked to "Biliary" :   bilious, gallbladder, bile



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