Human Anatomy: gallbladder, location, function

gall bladder (DGP) is considered to be the body of the digestive system of up to fifty-seventy cubic centimeters, which stores bile (up to sixty milliliters), adjusts its pressure in the ducts, releases it during food intake, thereby carrying out the process of digestion.

Note that gallbladder location is this: the right of the liver (on its lower surface) between the third and fourth metatarsal bones, and has a pear-shaped, end of which comes out of the liver (the contact with it and associated networkblood vessels) in the place where it joins the eighth and ninth ribs.The other end has the direction of the gate is covered by the liver and visceral peritoneum.The bubble has a length of up to twelve centimeters to five centimeters of width, consists of muscle cells.At the same vessels and peritoneum fix its location, hindering mobility.In some cases, the bubble is wrinkled, abbreviation, or egg-shaped and can reach large sizes.

To distinguish the bottom of the body, the neck of the gallbladder, they create an easy arc, the ends of which are turned down to the left.When a person takes a vertical position, the bottom of the bladder is lower than all the other three parts, then there is a body of the bladder, and for him - the neck.So, the bottom of the gallbladder is placed in front of the liver (at its edges), in rare cases it does not reach the edge of the liver, or closes its parenchyma.

Body gallbladder almost everything is covered by peritoneum and is adjacent to the transverse colon.Medially are the gatekeeper, and duodenum.If the lateral position, the location of the gallbladder will be closer to the vertical part of the duodenum, and its bottom touching the right kidney.

Neck JP forms an angle, dodging ahead, it is adjacent to the left side of the bubble and concerns the right branch of the portal vein.

should be noted that in contact with food in the duodenum, gall bladder (which side body it is, we know), cutting, secretes bile, which through the ducts into the intestine.Thus the bile ducts are located between the renal ligaments on the right side of the renal artery, they are directed downwards and are connected to the pancreatic duct.

There are some malformations DGP, these include congenital anomalies, such as changing its size and position.The most common malformations in the gall bladder location is wrong, or it is completely absent.Me in this case, and its size and capacity.Anomalies of the gallbladder may be accompanied by pain in the ribs have on the right side or occur without symptoms.

should be noted that the bubble has three layers: the mucosa, muscle, and fibrous layer consisting of connective tissue and the abdominal cover.The muscular layer in this underdeveloped, the mucous membrane is studded with short fibers.Its walls are arteries, veins, blood vessels and nerves.

Note that the gallbladder location varies depending on the age and constitution of the person.Usually it is on the anterior abdominal wall in the place where the cross right parasteralnaya line and a line connecting the ends of the ribs have (ten) or at the level of 1-11 vertebrae.

Thus, it became known, where the gall bladder.Once again, we note that it has an important function, as involved in the process of digestion.If for any reason the gallbladder was removed, bile flows slowly, and its antibacterial properties do not appear, therefore, in the gut microflora is disturbed, which causes pain in the abdomen.All functions of the bubble in this case passed on to the bile ducts.