GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is the ampulla of Vater? The ampulla of Vater is a part of your body involved in the digestive system. It’s an area where your common bile duct meets your pancreatic duct . Your common bile duct is a tube that carries bile from your liver and gallbladder to your duodenum, the first part of your small intestine.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ampulla, or ampulla of vater, is where the pancreatic duct and bile duct join together to drain into the duodenum, which is the first part of the small intestine.

Detailed explanation-3: -(am-PUH-luh) A sac-like enlargement of a canal or duct.

Detailed explanation-4: -called the hepatopancreatic ampulla (ampulla of Vater), which lies in the wall of the inner curve of the descending duodenum, and terminates in the lumen of the duodenum at a 2-to 3-cm elevation called the duodenal papilla (papilla of Vater).