Predominantly extrahepatic bile duct which is formed by the junction of the right and left hepatic ducts, which are predominantly intrahepatic, and, in turn, joins the cystic duct to form the common bile duct[GAID]. The common hepatic duct is the duct formed by the convergence of the right hepatic duct (which drains bile from the right functional lobe of the liver) and the left hepatic duct (which drains bile from the left functional lobe of the liver). The common hepatic duct then joins the cystic duct coming from the gallbladder to form the common bile duct[WP]. [ http://zfin.org/curator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_hepatic_duct ]
Term information
- Wikipedia:Common_hepatic_duct
- FMA:14668
- MESH:D006500
- SCTID:245403006
- EMAPA:19101
- VHOG:0000220
- MA:0002660
- GAID:286
- UMLS:C0019149 (ncithesaurus:Common_Hepatic_Duct)
- NCIT:C32356
uberon_slim, pheno_slim
TODO - MA distinguishes between bile duct, hepatic duct, common bile duct and common hepatic duct. in FMA hepatic duct and common hepatic duct are the same. Common is part of extra-hepatic part
The duct which conveys the bile from the liver and unites with the cystic duct to form the common bile duct. [Dorian_AF, Elsevier's_encyclopaedic_dictionary_of_medicine, Part_B:_Anatomy_(1988)_Amsterdam_etc.:_Elsevier][VHOG]
Term relations
- extrahepatic bile duct
- develops from some future common hepatic duct
- channel for some bile
- immediate transformation of some future common hepatic duct
- part of some extrahepatic part of hepatic duct
- channels_into some common bile duct
- continuous with some left hepatic duct
- continuous with some right hepatic duct