gallstone
Example Sentences
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Rarer side effects include acute gallstone disease and pancreatitis, and the NHS warns that there is also a risk of hypoglycaemia, which happens when your blood sugar level drops too low.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2025
In this patient’s case, the stuck gallstone blocked the flow of bilirubin into the gastrointestinal tract.
From New York Times • May 16, 2023
He was asked whether to remove a gallstone, if it was okay to begin chemotherapy, and whether this was a good time for a root canal.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2022
He had to have a gallstone removed, for which his doctors had given him anesthesia—a risky decision for someone with dementia—and he never quite recovered.
From Slate • May 4, 2021
It also "fortifies the stomach, comforts the bowels, reduces the gallstone to sand, the sand to mud, the mud to water—water which can be passed out of the system by the usual channels."
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
