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Several underlying health conditions that affect your liver, bile ducts, and gallbladder can reduce the amount of bilirubin (a substance that produces a yellow-green pigment) and lead to pale poop.
—Joy Emeh, Health, 2 Oct. 2024
Cancers of the appendix and the intrahepatic bile duct grew the fastest among this group.2
How do the latest findings add to the conversation about rising cancer rates in young adults?
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 7 Aug. 2024
For example, both fatty liver disease and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), an autoimmune disease that affects the bile ducts in the liver, often cause extreme fatigue.
—Brittany Risher, SELF, 6 Dec. 2024
Randy Moss is undergoing treatment for bile duct cancer.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1774, in the meaning defined above
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“Bile duct.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bile%20duct. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
Medical Definition
bile duct
noun
: a duct by which bile passes from the liver or gallbladder to the duodenum
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