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So gastrointestinal tract cancers such as pancreatic cancer, appendix cancer, bile duct cancers have also all been rising significantly in people under the age of 50.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
Also called cholangiocarcinoma, bile duct cancer is a rare disease in which cancer cells form in the ducts, or tubes, connecting the liver, gallbladder and small intestine according to the National Cancer Institute.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
Alfred died of cancer in 2002 On July 4, 2002, Alfred died after contracting a rare form of bile duct cancer.
—Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
There could be a structural defect, such as an obstruction in the bile duct or a stone in the liver.5
Tumors: A tumor is an abnormal growth of cells.
—Jenna Birch, Health, 28 Apr. 2024
Documentary filmmaker and social activist Lourdes Portillo dies at 80
Influential documentarian Lourdes Portillo passed away of cholangiocarcinoma, a kind of bile duct cancer, earlier this week.
—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
Probing with an endoscope, the doctors visualized a worm at the point where the common bile duct joins with the pancreatic bile duct at the entrance to the small intestine.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2023
The cause was cancer of the bile duct, her husband, the jazz saxophonist Larry Ochs, said.
—Alex Williams, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health, PBC, is a chronic disease where the bile ducts in the liver eventually become dysfunctional and cause the buildup of bile which causes liver damage.
—Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 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 10 Jun. 2024.
Medical Definition
bile duct
noun
: a duct by which bile passes from the liver or gallbladder to the duodenum
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