Diagram Of Liver And Bile Ducts

The gallbladder stores bile produced by the liver.

Diagram of liver and bile ducts.

A bile duct is any of a number of long tube like structures that carry bile and is present in. The excess sits in the hepatic and cystic ducts which are connected to the gallbladder. During digestion of a meal smooth muscles in the walls of the gallbladder contract to push bile into the bile ducts that lead to the duodenum. Vaginali ductuli are small communications between two bile ducts or between a bile duct and.

Connected to the bile ducts of the liver through the cystic duct the gallbladder receives bile transported from the liver for storage on a regular basis to prepare for the digestion of future meals. The common bile duct is a small tube like structure formed where the common hepatic duct and the cystic duct join. The common hepatic duct then joins with the cystic duct from the gallbladder to form the common bile duct. A bile duct obstruction also known as biliary obstruction is when one of the ducts that carry bile from the liver to the intestine via the gallbladder becomes blocked.

The biliary tree as it is known has many different parts all of which serve the same function and are prone to a number of diseases that can ultimately affect the liver gallbladder and or pancreas. Bile ducts thus begin in very close proximity to the terminal branches of the portal vein and hepatic artery and this group of structures is an easily recognized and important landmark seen in histologic sections of liver the grouping of bile duct hepatic arteriole and portal venule is called a portal triad. Before a meal the gallbladder may be full of bile and about the size of. These ducts ultimately drain into the common hepatic duct.

The liver produces bile continuously but the body only needs it a few times a day. When the liver cells secrete bile it is collected by a system of ducts that flow from the liver through the right and left hepatic ducts.