A stone or calculus formed in the bile ducts or gallbladder.
From Greek 'chole' (bile) + 'lithos' (stone). This medical term literally describes the gallstones that can form when bile hardens.
Gallstones are absolutely wild—some people have hundreds of tiny ones while others develop one giant stone the size of a golf ball, and they form differently depending on whether you're dealing with cholesterol, pigment, or calcium-based stones!
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