DeCS

Descriptor English:

Bile Ducts

Descriptor Spanish:

Conductos Biliares

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	conductos biliares
Entry term(s)	vía biliar vías biliares
Scope note:	Cualquiera de los conductos intra o extrahepáticos por los que circula la bilis. (Diccionario Terminológico de Ciencias Médicas. 13a ed. Masson, p. 278)

Descriptor Portuguese:

Ductos Biliares

Descriptor French:

Conduits biliaires

Entry term(s):

Canal biliaire
Canaux biliaires

Tree number(s):

A03.159.183

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001652

Scope note:

The channels that collect and transport the bile secretion from the BILE CANALICULI, the smallest branch of the BILIARY TRACT in the LIVER, through the bile ductules, the bile ducts out the liver, and to the GALLBLADDER for storage.

Annotation:

/abnorm: BILIARY ATRESIA is also available; inflammation = CHOLANGITIS; calculi = BILIARY CALCULI see GALLSTONES but consider also CHOLELITHIASIS (IM) + BILE DUCT DISEASES (IM)

Allowable Qualifiers:

AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IN traumatismes
IR innervation
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie