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noun

Gall n.

(Physiol.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

The gall bladder.

Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. "He hath... compassed me with gall and travail." "Comedy diverted without gall."

Impudence; brazen assurance. (Slang)

Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis.

Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct.

Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands.

Gall of the earth (Bot.), an herbaceous composite plant with variously lobed and cleft leaves, usually the Prenanthes serpentaria.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gall bladder" Quotes from Famous Books

... are expiratory, and the chief agents for expelling the residuum from the rectum, the bile from the gall bladder, the contents of the stomach and bowels when vomiting, and the mucus and irritating substances from the bronchial tubes, trachea, and nasal passages by coughing and sneezing. To produce these effects they all act together. Their violent and continued action ...

— A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) • Calvin Cutter

... going to Mayos? To see if it is true that my stomach and my gall bladder have become too intimate. Rochester is the Reno ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane