What's the difference between bilestone and gallstone?
Bilestone
Definition:
(n.) A gallstone, or biliary calculus. See Biliary.
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Gallstone
Definition:
(n.) A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
(2) Best results were achieved in patients with single gallstones.
(3) Cholecystectomy is advocated in symptomatic patients with this condition, even when gallstones are not present.
(4) In addition the development of any gallstones was determined by serial ultrasonography.
(5) In a few patients, evidence of obstructive gallstone disease will develop during bile acid therapy and surgery will be required.
(6) Two of the patients had inflammatory bowel disease, none had a history of alcoholism and only one had gallstones.
(7) All the cholecystectomies were performed for gallstones.
(8) The serum cholesterol did not show any consistent change in the normal subjects, but there was a fall in cholesterol at 20 weeks in patients with gallstones; patients with previous myocardial infarction had a rise in cholesterol which returned to normal at 20 weeks.
(9) The patients with gallstone pancreatitis experienced a relief of symptoms and a decrease in the levels of serum amylase and bilirubin prior to rectal passage of the stones.
(10) Of 39 patients with gallstones, 30 were correctly diagnosed by ultrasound.
(11) The development of gallstones following this procedure, however, has become more problematic in that further opeation becomes a real necessity.
(12) Hepatic bile from gallstone patients contained significantly more cholesterol than did gallbladder bile from the same patients.
(13) Twelve patients with biliary colic had no evidence of gallstones but underwent cholecystokinin-augmented hepatobiliary scintigraphy that revealed gallbladder ejection fractions of less than 35%.
(14) The usefulness of micronutrient antioxidant therapy for recurrent (non-gallstone) pancreatitis has recently been endorsed by a 20-week double-blind double-dummy cross-over trial in 20 patients.
(15) We studied the prevalence of gallstones in patients with upper abdominal pain, heaviness, or discomfort by ultrasound examination of the gallbladder.
(16) Thus, decreased EF does not predict the histologic features of chronic cholecystitis without gallstones.
(17) This difference persisted stratifying women with gallstones and those in the control group for age.
(18) The object of this investigation was to determine gallstone susceptibility to laser lithotripsy and to discover whether this susceptibility is related to the computed tomography (CT) appearance of gallstones.
(19) The indications were initially restrictive but now embrace the quasi-totality of gallstones, complicated or not, and in particular when the patient's general condition is fragile.
(20) The bile ducts were visualised using endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), percutaneous or intravenous cholangiography in 38 patients with non-gallstone chronic pancreatitis.