bile
101bile-acid sequestrant — a drug that binds to bile acids, forming a complex that is excreted in the faeces. Bile acids are formed in the liver from cholesterol and the effect of loss of bile acids is a reduction in total body cholesterol and a decrease in low density… …
102bile-acid sequestrant — a drug that binds to bile acids, forming a complex that is excreted in the faeces. Bile acids are formed in the liver from cholesterol and the effect of loss of bile acids is a reduction in total body cholesterol and a decrease in low density… …
103bile pigment — noun : any of several coloring matters (as bilirubin or biliverdin) in the bile that pass on oxidation through a succession of colors useful as tests for the pigments * * * bile pigment, one of the coloring substances in bile, such as bilirubin… …
104bile acid — Physiol. any of various steroid acids, produced in the liver and stored with bile, that emulsify fats during digestion. Cf. bile salt. [1880 85] * * * …
105bile duct — Anat. a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage. [1765 75] * * * …
106bile salt — noun The sodium salt of a bile acid; produced by the bile to neutralize the products leaving the stomach and to emulsify fatty material in it …
107bile acid — noun any of the steroid acids produced by the liver, such as cholic acid, that occur in bile as sodium salts and serve to neutralize the contents of the stomach as they enter the duodenum and to aid the emulsificatio …
108bile acids — the organic acids in bile; mostly occurring as bile salts (sodium glycocholate and sodium taurocholate). They are cholic acid, deoxycholic acid, glycocholic acid, and taurocholic acid …
109bile pigments — coloured compounds breakdown products of the blood pigment haemoglobin that are excreted in bile. The two most important bile pigments are bilirubin, which is orange or yellow, and its oxidized form biliverdin, which is green. Mixed with the… …
110bile acid breath test — (for overgrowth of bacteria in the intestine) a breath test in which the patient is given a dose of a conjugated bile acid labeled with carbon 14 and the amount of radioactively labeled carbon dioxide in the breath is measured at hourly intervals …
