Bile or gall is a bitter-tasting, dark green to yellowish brown fluid.
Bile Composition: Water - 85.0%, Bile salts - 10%, Coloring matter and mucus - 3%, Fats - 1%, Cholesterin - 0.3%, Inorganic salts - 0.7%.
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Chole
bile (Note: Chole plus cyst, meaning bladder, equals gallbladder;
chole plus doch, meaning duct, equals choledocho or common bile duct.)
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The combining form is cholecyst-; A gallstone is medically termed cholelithiasis. The removal of a gallbladder is cholecystectmy. And from there procedural or condition terms append the prefix.
A disease of the gallbladder is termed cholecystitis, while the removal of a gallbladder is known as a cholecystectomy. Conversely, the urinary bladder has a prefix cyst-, so a disease of the urinary bladder: cystitis; removal of the urinary bladder: cystectomy, a common method of examining the bladder is by cystoscopy, and a bladder stone is cystolithiasis. The prefix medical term for BILE is bili- because the correct medical term for bile is bilirubin.
Cholecyst/o.