Gall Bladder
a pear-shaped membranous sac, 3 or 4 inches long by 1½ inches broad, lodged obliquely in a fossa on the under surface of the right lobe of the liver. The neck, which is shaped like the letter S, bends downward and terminates in the cystic duct. GALLE (gäl), or POINT DE GALLE (point de gäl), a fortified town and seaport of the S. W. extremity of the island of Ceylon, on a low rocky promontory of the same name. It has a good harbor, formed by a small bay. It has lost its former importance as a coaling and transhipping station for the great lines of steamers from Europe to Australia and China since the completion of the breakwater at Colombo. It is the capital of the S. province of Ceylon. Pop. about 40,000.