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HEPATIC DUCT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The duct that drains bile from the liver
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hepatic duct" is a kind of...):
canal; channel; duct; epithelial duct (a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance)
Holonyms ("hepatic duct" is a part of...):
liver (large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes)
Context examples:
A procedure that uses an endoscope to examine and x-ray the pancreatic duct, hepatic duct, common bile duct, duodenal papilla, and gallbladder.
(Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, NCI Dictionary)
A carcinoma that arises from the intrahepatic biliary tree (intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma) or from the junction, or adjacent to the junction, of the right and left hepatic ducts (hilar cholangiocarcinoma).
(Cholangiocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
It is comprised of the intrahepatic bile ducts, hepatic ducts, common bile duct, cystic duct, and the gallbladder.
(Biliary tract, NCI Thesaurus)
The portion of the biliary tract outside the liver; the common hepatic duct joins the cystic duct to form the common bile duct.
(Extrahepatic bile duct, NCI Thesaurus)
It joins the common hepatic duct to form the common bile duct.
(Cystic duct, NCI Dictionary)
Carcinomas that arise from the intrahepatic bile ducts and the hepatic ducts are called cholangiocarcinomas and are almost always adenocarcinomas.
(Bile Duct Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A component of the biliary duct system created by the convergence of the left and right hepatic ducts.
(Common hepatic duct, NCI Thesaurus)
Many canaliculi come together to form bile ductules that ultimately form the common hepatic duct.
(Bile Canaliculus, NCI Thesaurus)
Adenocarcinomas that arise from the intrahepatic bile ducts or the hepatic ducts are called cholangiocarcinomas.
(Bile Duct Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
