Gallstones and Cholelithiasis
The medical term for cholelithiasis 'cholecystitis'. The medical term for gallstones, or symptomatic gallstones, is cholecystitis. They are small, crystal-shaped deposits that may form within the gallbladder, around the bile duct and the spleen They vary in size from small grains of sand (called ascites) to large stones (calcium pyrophosphate) – though larger …