Back to school: a weird-looking sausage

Part of the right lobe is a long thin sausage, which is called the gall-bladder or martum in Mesopotamia. Its main function is to store bile. The bile is then released into the small intestine to help in the digestion process. The gall-bladder is attached to a long tube, called the cystic duct, through which the bile flows. Morris Jastrow Jr., Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria (New York; London: The Knickerbocker Press, 1911), 156.