biliary

1. Of or relating to bile, the bile ducts, or the gallbladder.
2. Transporting bile.

1. Of or relating to bile, the bile ducts, or the gallbladder.
2. Transporting bile.

Pertaining to the bile, to the bile ducts, or to the gallbladder. See also bile duct.

• b. excretion — removal in the bile of substances including drugs, toxins, hormones or pigments, or their breakdown products. These are delivered to the duodenum and removed in the feces.
• b. fever — see babesiosis.
• b. fibrosis — one of the three forms of hepatic fibrosis; largely confined to the portal triads; see also bile duct fibrosis.
• b. infarct — areas of hepatic fibrosis that physically resemble vascular infarcts but are related to damaged bile ducts.
• interlobular b. duct — see bile duct.
• b. obstruction — obstruction of biliary ducts may be intra- or extrahepatic, and intraluminal (calculi) or by external compression by tumor mass or cicatricial contraction, or more commonly in food animals by migrating ascarid larvae in the bile ducts or by cholangitis caused by Fasciola hepatica or Dichrocoelium dendriticum. Jaundice is the outstanding clinical sign of the condition. See also cholestasis.
• b. salts — see bile salt.
• b. stones — see cholelithiasis.
• b. tract — the organs, ducts, etc., participating in secretion (the liver), storage (the gallbladder, if present), and delivery (hepatic and bile ducts) of bile into the duodenum.

The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: relating to or containing bile
  Synonym: bilious
  Pertains to noun: bile (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder
  Pertains to noun: gallbladder (meaning #1)