GB & biliary - key terms

What are the small valves found within the cystic duct called?

• Heifer's valves

• Heister's valves

• Hister's valves

• Hestier's valves

What organ acts as a storage pouch for bile?

• liver

• pancreas

• gallbladder

• spleen

What is the term used for inflammation of the bile ducts?

• cholecystitis

• cholangitis

• ductitis

• pancreatitis

What variant of the gallbladder is seen when the fundus of the gallbladder is bent back on itself?

• Peruvian cap

• Pythagorean cap

• Phrygian cap

• Phrygan cap

What drains into the duodenum after it joins the main pancreatic duct?

• common bile duct

• common hepatic duct

• pancreatic duct

• ampulla of Vater

What is the medical term for gallstones in the gallbladder?

• cholelithosis

• cholelithioplasty

• cholecystectomy

• cholelithiasis

Name the small opening in the duodenum where the pancreas and common bile duct enter.

• Valve of Heister

• Sphincter of Oddi

• Ampulla of Vater

• common bile duct

What is the medical term used for tenderness over the area of the gallbladder upon palpation?

• McBurney's sign

• Morrison's sign

• Mandy's sign

• Murphy's sign

What does choledocholithiasis refer to?

• stones in the pancreatic duct

• stones in the bile duct

• stones in the hepatic duct

• stones in the cystic duct

Describe adenomyomatosis.

• swelling in the cystic duct

• inflammation of the vessels of the biliary system

• large pockets of fluid in the muscular lining of the gallbladder

• small polypoid projections from the wall of the gallbladder