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Descriptor English: Gallbladder Emptying
Descriptor Spanish: Vaciamiento Vesicular
Descriptor vaciamiento biliar
Scope note: Proceso por el cual la bilis es eliminada de la vesícula biliar al duodeno. La evacuación está causada por la contracción de la vesícula biliar y la relajación del mecanismo esfinteriano en la parte terminal del conducto colédoco.
Descriptor Portuguese: Esvaziamento da Vesícula Biliar
Descriptor French: Vidange biliaire
Entry term(s): Emptying, Gall Bladder
Emptying, Gallbladder
Gall Bladder Emptying
Tree number(s): G10.261.345
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016473
Scope note: A process whereby bile is delivered from the gallbladder into the duodenum. The emptying is caused by both contraction of the gallbladder and relaxation of the sphincter mechanism at the choledochal terminus.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Gallbladder (1975-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
DeCS ID: 30092
Unique ID: D016473
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Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/01/02
Revision Date: 2016/06/23
Gallbladder Emptying - Preferred
Concept UI M0025159
Scope note A process whereby bile is delivered from the gallbladder into the duodenum. The emptying is caused by both contraction of the gallbladder and relaxation of the sphincter mechanism at the choledochal terminus.
Preferred term Gallbladder Emptying
Entry term(s) Emptying, Gall Bladder
Emptying, Gallbladder
Gall Bladder Emptying



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