{"id":1632,"date":"2017-05-11T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T22:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2017-05-11T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T22:37:53","slug":"gall-bladder-and-bile-duct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/05\/11\/gall-bladder-and-bile-duct\/","title":{"rendered":"Gall Bladder and Bile Duct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gall bladder is a structure found under the liver of many vertebrates, including humans, where it stores bile that is secreted by the liver. \u00a0<strong>Bile<\/strong> is transported to the duodenum through the bile duct; its main function is to aid in the digestion of fats.<\/p>\n<p>In humans, the gall bladder is sometimes removed as a treatment for gallstones. \u00a0 This procedure is called \u00a0a\u00a0<strong>cholecystectomy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The image below shows the <strong>gall bladder<\/strong> and the <strong>duodenum<\/strong> which are both stained green due to the presence of bile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1633\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/gallbladder-duodenum-labeled.jpg\" alt=\"Gall bladder\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/gallbladder-duodenum-labeled.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/gallbladder-duodenum-labeled-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/gallbladder-duodenum-labeled-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/gallbladder-duodenum-labeled-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gall bladder is a structure found under the liver of many vertebrates, including humans, where it stores bile that is secreted by the liver. \u00a0Bile is transported to the duodenum through the bile duct; its main function is to aid in the digestion of fats. In humans, the gall bladder is sometimes removed as a treatment for gallstones. \u00a0 This procedure is called \u00a0a\u00a0cholecystectomy. The image below shows the gall bladder and the duodenum which are both stained green due to the presence of bile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[252,14,376,31,39,38],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-bile","tag-bladder","tag-duct","tag-duodenum","tag-gall","tag-liver","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}