Gallbladder

vesica bilaris; a pear-shaped receptacle on the inferior surface of the liver, in a hollow between the right lobe and the quadrate lobe

Description
The gallbladder serves as a storage reservoir for bile. It needs to be surgically removed (open or laparoscopic surgery) in patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis. Syn vesica biliaris, cholecystis, cholecyst.