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See gallbladder; swim bladder; urinary bladder.
Aside from cancer research, Rous did investigations of liver and gallbladder physiology, and he worked on the development of blood-preserving techniques that made the first blood banks possible.
The body contains five organs (heart, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys), which store up but do not eliminate, and five viscera (such as the stomach, intestines, gallbladder, and bladder), which eliminate but do not store up.
Exocrine cancers are often treated with the Whipple procedure, a complicated surgical approach that removes all or part of the pancreas and nearby lymph nodes, the gallbladder, and portions of the stomach, small intestine, and bile duct.
Its pharyngeal and laryngeal branches transmit motor impulses to the pharynx and larynx; its cardiac branches act to slow the rate of heartbeat; its bronchial branch acts to constrict the bronchi; and its esophageal branches control involuntary muscles in the esophagus, stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, and small intestine, stimulating peristalsis and gastrointestinal secretions.
Halsted continued his research at Johns Hopkins, where he developed original operations for hernia, breast cancer, goitre, aneurysms, and intestinal and gallbladder diseases.
Cholecystitis, acute or chronic inflammation of the gallbladder, in most instances associated with the presence of gallstones.
Blockage of the bile duct may also cause the gallbladder to become enlarged.
The cystic duct varies from 2 to 3 cm in length and terminates in the gallbladder, a saccular structure with a capacity of about 50 ml (about 1.5 fluid ounces).
Normally, the gallbladder lies partially embedded on the undersurface of the right lobe of the liver.
