Category: C

A drug or action that empties the gallbladder.  

Any salt or ester of cholic acid.  

Incision of an intrahepatic or extrahepatic bile duct for removal of gallstones.  

Surgical formation of a fistula into the bile duct.  

The small terminal portion of the bile duct.  

Surgical formation of a passage between a bile duct and the stomach.  

Surgical formation of a passage between a bile duct and the intestine.  

Respiratory symptoms such as substemal distress, paroxysmal cough, tachypnea, or asphyxia. These may occur in decompression illness, especially in cases of aeroembolism resulting from exposure to pressure lower than atmospheric.  

A white crystalline powder used to treat both malaria and amebic dysentery.  

An insecticide, better known as DDT, not used in the U.S. since the 1970s because of its toxic  effects on animals and the environment.