bile

UBERON:0001970 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Vital aqueous secretion of the liver that is formed by hepatocytes and modified down stream by absorptive and secretory properties of the bile duct epithelium. — UBERON

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Biliary tract > Gallbladder: Bile	1	ORGANISM
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Biliary tract > Bile ducts: Bile	—

Broader habitats

secretion of exocrine gland UBERON:0000456
bodily fluid UBERON:0006314
Biliary tract habitatmech:GOLD.133311ddf9

Also called

Bile ducts: Bile — GOLD
Gallbladder: Bile — GOLD
fel — UBERON
gall — UBERON

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0001970 'bile' (EXACT). The habitat sampled is the bile. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Biliary tract > (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.bbb4a18cfe)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0001970 'bile' (EXACT). The habitat sampled is the bile, not the organ; the proposal offered the gallbladder. Path: Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Biliary tract > (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.e30fd28de3)

Provenance

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