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Medical Terminology · Chapter 10

The Chol– Root Router

Bile travels a plumbing system, so biliary terms name the plumbing, not the organ — and four roots that all start c-h-o-l mark four different points along one path. Read the term, then send it to the exact structure it names by clicking the map or a target button. Every miss comes back with the reason, because charting cholangitis when you meant choledocholithiasis changes how urgent the case is.
LIVER hepat/o cholangi/o any bile duct cholecyst/o gallbladder choledoch/o common bile duct chol/e bile itself PANCREAS pancreat/o shared outlet duoden/o · duodenum Schematic, not to scale — one path, four chol– roots.
Targets · click the map or these