The Gall Bladder
The Gall bladder us an organ which is placed in the abdomen and has a shape of a pear, hollow viscus, which is slate blue in color and is situated obliquely in the non peritoneal fossa on the under surface of the right lobe, and also extends from the right end of the Porta hepatis to the interior of the liver. It is one of the organs of the biliary pathway, and is fibro muscular in character. And it acts as a specialized reservoir of the bile which is secreted by the cells of the liver, and is stored and concentrated here.
The exact size of the Gall bladder can be said to be as the length to be seven to ten centimeters, breadth which cannot exceed three centimeters, and the total capacity of the bladder being not more than a total of thirty to fifty ml, which is actually equivalent to about one or two ml per kg weight of the body.
The main parts of the examination of the gall bladder are the broad expanded blunt extremity called the Fundus, which just peeps out in the normal condition from the inferior surface of the liver, lying opposite to the right ninth costal cartilage. Just after the Fundus lies with a narrowed diameter the body of the gall bladder.
This is followed by the neck which is constricted portion of the gall bladder. From the neck of the gall bladder the cystic duct is continuous.
Next we go on to see the peritoneal relation of the gall bladder. The fundus of the gall bladder is covered with the peritoneum or the serous coat completely. The body and the neck on the superior surface are not covered with the peritoneum and are actually adherent to the liver by the help of some of the loose areolar tissues.