Gall - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gallCup gall
A kind of oak leaf gall See Gall...
Gall
The bitter alkaline viscid fluid found in the gall bladder beneath the liver It consists of the secretion of the liver or bile mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder...
Galling
Fitted to gall or chafe vexing harassing irritating...
Gallfly
An insect that deposits its eggs in plants and occasions galls esp any small hymenopteran of the genus Cynips and allied genera See Illust of Gall...
Gallnut
A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree See Gall and Nutgall...
Nutgall
A more or less round gall resembling a nut esp one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts See Gall Gallnut...
Bedeguar
A gall produced on rosebushes esp on the sweetbrier or eglantine by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly Rhodites rosaelig It was once supposed to have medicinal properties...
Cecidomyidae
A natural family comprising the gall midges...
Cholecystis
The gall bladder...
Cholecystotomy
The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder as for the removal of a gallstone...
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