cholecyst

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “gall; bile”) + κύστις (kústis, “anatomical sac”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊləˌsɪst/

Noun

cholecyst (plural cholecysts)

1. (anatomy) The gall bladder.
   • 1882, Burt G. Wilder, Simon H. Gage, Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat, A. S. Barnes and Company, page 287,

     Press on the cholecyst, and the contained bile will be forced into the various bile ducts:

   • 1904, Columbus Medical Journal, Volume 28, Columbus Medical Publishing Company, page 342,

     Sharpe observed that when the contents of the cholecyst had ulcerated, perforated, through the abdominal wall and the gall-bladder became evacuated the patient improved […] .

   • 2010, Hans-Christian Schneider, Juergen Wahrburg, 4: Simulation Model for the Dynamics Analysis of a Surgical Assistance Robot, Seung Hyuk Baik (editor), Robot Surgery, InTech (IntechOpen), page 15,

     This experiment simulates the environment by using a liver with a cholecyst to reproduce pseudo in-vivo environment and laparoscopic cholecystectomy where the cholecyst is removed from the liver.

Derived terms

• cholecystectomy
• cholecystic
• cholecystitis
• cholecystolithiasis
• pericholecystic

 

Related terms

• cholangio-

 

Translations

gall bladder — see gall bladder

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cholecyst”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.