Digestive system
GALLBLADDER
The digestive system
The digestive system is the process that helps the body digest foods and nutrition. Some different parts of the digestive system are the mouth, esophagus, gallbladder, liver, stomach, pancreas, small intestines, large intestines, and the rectum.
The functions of the organs
In the digestive system all of the organs play a important role. The mouth helps consume water and food. The esophagus is a tube that carries food out. The stomach is used to store and digest food. The liver is the main chemical factory and it stores the energy. The small intestines carries most of the digestive process and the large intestines eliminates waste. All of the oragns are very important.
The GALLBLADDER
The gallbladder is one of the many members of the digestive system. It is much smaller than the regular bladder and is shaped kind of like a pear.
The Gallbladder function
Function
The gallbladder function is simple. It holds the bile for the digestive system. Bile is a type of liquid. The gallbladder can hold one and half ounces of bile at a time.
During the process
During the digestive system the bile flows from the liver through the hepatic duct into the common bile duct. Then it gets stored in the gallbladder.
Disorders
Unfortunately, the gallbladder can cause a few disorders. One main one is gallstones. These can cause a lot of pain. It is a concretion made of crystal substances. It is a result of liver damage, gallbladder disease, obesity, and cancer.Other disorders are the smaller pancreas, tumors, and infection of parasites.
working together
The digestive system works with the circulatory system well. It helps take toxins out of the body.
Small but mighty
The gallbladders job is to store all the bile
during the digestive process. The gallbladder
may be small but it has a big part in the
digestive system.
during the digestive process. The gallbladder
may be small but it has a big part in the
digestive system.