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The liver is a vital organ and supports almost every other organ in the body. Because of its strategic location and multidimensional functions, the liver is prone to many diseases. [58] The bare area of the liver is a site that is vulnerable to the passing of infection from the abdominal cavity to the thoracic cavity. Liver diseases may be ...
The liver is divided into four lobes. This image shows the large right lobe and a smaller left lobe separated by the falciform ligament. 1: Right lobe of liver. 2: Left lobe of liver. 3: Quadrate lobe of liver. 4: Round ligament of liver. 5: Falciform ligament. 6: Caudate lobe of liver. 7: Inferior vena cava.
Lobules of liver. The structure of the liver’s functional units or lobules. Blood enters the lobules through branches of the portal vein and hepatic artery proper, then flows through sinusoids. In histology (microscopic anatomy), the lobules of liver, or hepatic lobules, are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic scale.
A liver segment is one of eight segments of the liver as described in the widely used Couinaud classification (named after Claude Couinaud) in the anatomy of the liver.This system divides the lobes of the liver into eight segments based on a transverse plane through the bifurcation of the main portal vein, [1] arranged in a clockwise manner starting from the caudate lobe.
The front border of the liver has been lifted up (brown arrow). [1] A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile, and is present in most vertebrates. The bile duct is separated into three main parts: the fundus (superior), the body (middle), and the neck (inferior). Bile is required for the digestion of food and ...
The liver is the second largest organ (after the skin) and is an accessory digestive gland which plays a role in the body's metabolism. The liver has many functions some of which are important to digestion. The liver can detoxify various metabolites; synthesise proteins and produce biochemicals needed for digestion. It regulates the storage of ...
The ampulla of Vater, hepatopancreatic ampulla or hepatopancreatic duct is the common duct that is usually formed by a union of the common bile duct and the pancreatic duct within the wall of the duodenum. This common duct usually features a dilation (" ampulla "). The common duct then opens medially into the descending part of the duodenum at ...
Falciform ligament can be seen separating the left medial from the right lateral lobes of liver. In human anatomy, the falciform ligament (from Latin ' sickle -shaped') is a ligament that attaches the liver to the front body wall and divides the liver into the left lobe and right lobe. [1] The falciform ligament is a broad and thin fold of ...