A complex network of conduits that begins with the canals of Hering (intralobar bile duct) and progressively merges into a system of interlobular, septal, and major ducts which then coalesce to form the extrahepatic bile ducts, which finally deliver bile to the intestine, and in some species to the gallbladder. [ http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ar.20664 ]
Term information
- UMLS:C0005423 (ncithesaurus:Biliary_Tract)
- XAO:0000455
- FMA:14665
- SCTID:181267003
- AAO:0011020
- EMAPA:35172
- Wikipedia:Biliary_tract
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The path in many species is as follows: Bile canaliculi -> Canals of Hering (intralobar bile duct) -> interlobular bile ducts -> intrahepatic bile ducts -> left and right hepatic ducts merge to form -> common hepatic duct *exits liver* and joins -> cystic duct (from gall bladder) forming -> common bile duct -> joins with pancreatic duct -> forming ampulla of Vater -> enters duodenum [WP]
Term relations
- digestive system element
- endoderm-derived structure
- organ
- cellular anatomical structure
- part of some biliary system
- has part some interlobular bile duct
- develops from some biliary bud
- contributes to morphology of some hepatobiliary system
- composed primarily of some bile duct
- has part some extrahepatic bile duct
- has part some intralobular bile duct