cholecyst

noun

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

1. 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 […] .”