Surgery Bile may enter the stomach following a cholescystectomy (surgical removal of the gallbladder). This is known as postcholecystectomy syndrome and often results in gastritis and esophagitis. The irritation of the stomach lining may lead to vomiting of the bile and other gastric contents.
Show popularity chart The name Dirk is a diminutive form of the name Diederik, which is a Dutch variant of the name Theodoric, which is a Germanic name comprised of the elements peud people and ric power, ruler, hence the meaning ruler of the people.
In Job 3:8 , Revised Version, and marg. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to Eastern tradition, is an enemy of light; in 41:1 the crocodile is meant; in Psalms 104:26 it denotes any large animal that moves by writhing or wriggling the body, the whale, the monsters of the deep..