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[Ger. bild, an image, and stein, a stone.] ( Min.) The same as Am alga to lite, q. v. Bile, ( bil ) n. [Fr., from Lat. bilis ; allied, to fel , fell is, the gall-bladder.] ( Physiol .) One of the most important secretions in the body; a thick unctuous, yellow fluid, secreted in the liver, and carried to the gall-bladder; having a rank, heavy smell, and an acrid, bitter taste. The refuse blood from the lower extremities and great. organs of the abdomen, on its return to the heart by the great ascending vein, vena cava , pa es through the liver, where it is subjected to the action of certain secreting ve els, which, separating from it much of its carbon, and other impurities, forms a new substance, called bile, which is carried by innumerable small ves--[A different orthography of bulge .] The protuberant sels, that afterwards unite to form one tube, called the part of a cask at the middle. hepatic duct, terminating in the neck of the gall-blad- -v. n. ( Naut .) To suffer a fracture in the bilge ; to spring der, and conveying to that receptacle all the secretion a leak. brought from every part of the liver. To be more Bilged, ( bilj - d ' ,) a. ( Naut .) Having a fracture in the strictly anatomical:- Proceeding from every part of bilge. the bowels, and membranes that surround them, are Bilge'-ways, n. ( Naut .) Pieces of timber placed un numerous small veins, which converge, and finally form one large trunk, called the portal vein, vena porta . This vein, entering the liver, immediately divides and subdivides over the substance of that gland, till it is diffused in the most minute ramifications. The blood conveyed by the vena porta is the darkest and most impure in the system. From the extreme termination of the E Fig . 356. -THE BILIARY ORGANS. der a ve el's bilge to support her when being launched. Bilhah, the handmaid of Rachel, given by her to her husband Jacob when herself childle , that she might become a mother through her handmaid. B. was the mother of Dan and Naphtali, ( Gen. xxx. 1-8.) Bil'iary, a . Belonging to the bile. B. Ducts. (Physiol.) By this term is understood the hepatic , or liver duct; the cystic , or biliary duct; and a continuation from the union of these two, called the common duct of the bile, which carries the secretion into the duodenum. The hepatic duct carries the secretion to the neck of the gall-bladder, or the cystic duct; the last, or common excretory duct, being merely a continuation of the other.