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bile duct any of the canals or passageways that conduct bile. There are three: the hepatic duct drains bile from the liver; the cystic duct is an extension of the gallbladder and conveys bile out of that organ. These two ducts may be thought of as branches that drain into the third duct, the common bile duct, a kind of “trunk,” that passes through the wall of the small intestine at the duodenum and joins with the pancreatic duct to form the hepatopancreatic ampulla.
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