Common bile duct

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Overview

Common bile duct
Digestive system diagram showing the common bile duct
The gall-bladder and bile ducts laid open.
Latin	ductus choledochus
Gray's	subject #250 1198
Dorlands/Elsevier	d_29/12314771

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Bile, which is synthesized in the liver, is carried to the right and left hepatic ducts, which converge to form the common hepatic duct. There, it can either enter the superior end of the common bile duct and either empties into the third (and retroperitoneal) portion of the duodenum, or enter the cystic duct to be stored in the gallbladder.

The inferior end of the common bile duct merges with the large pancreatic duct (duct of Wirsung) from the pancreas, into the ampulla of Vater. There, the two ducts are surrounded by the muscular hepatopancreatic sphincter (sphincter of Oddi) which if contracted, prevents bile from entering the small intestine.

Additional images

Region of pancreas	The celiac ganglia with the sympathetic plexuses of the abdominal viscera radiating from the ganglia.	Horizontal disposition of the peritoneum in the upper part of the abdomen.	Interior of the descending portion of the duodenum, showing bile papilla.
Inferior surface of the liver.	The pancreas and duodenum from behind.	The pancreatic duct.	The portal vein and its tributaries.
Liver and gallbladder

External links

• SUNY Figs 38:06-08 - "The gallbladder and extrahepatic bile ducts."
• SUNY Anatomy Image 8336
• SUNY Anatomy Image 7957
• Norman/Georgetown liver (biliarysystem)

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v • d • e Anatomy of torso, digestive system: Digestive glands
Liver	by region: Left lobe (Caudate lobe, Quadrate lobe) • Right lobe • Transverse fissure of liver by function: Fibrous capsule of Glisson • Hepatocyte • Space of Disse • Space of Mall • Kupffer cell • Liver sinusoid • Ito cell • Hepatic lobule bile ducts: Bile canaliculus • Canals of Hering • Interlobular bile ducts • Intrahepatic bile ducts • Left and Right hepatic ducts • Common hepatic duct
Gallbladder	by region: Body • Fundus • Neck ducts: Cystic duct
Pancreas	by region: Tail • Body • Head • Uncinate process by function: Islets of Langerhans • Exocrine pancreas ducts: Pancreatic duct • Accessory pancreatic duct
Common	Common bile duct • Hepatopancreatic ampulla • Sphincter of Oddi

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