Liver

Liver Cancer OverviewThe liver has many important functions in the body. For example, it cleans toxins from the blood, makes bile that helps digest fat, makes substances that help blood…

In vertebrates the gallbladder (also gall bladder, biliary vesicle or cholecyst) is a small organ where bile (a fluid produced by the liver) is stored and concentrated before it is…

In anatomy, the round ligament of (the) liver (also commonly known by its Latin name, ligamentum teres - or more specifically ligamentum teres hepatis) is a degenerative string of tissue…

The falciform ligament is a ligament that attaches the liver to the anterior (ventral) body wall. It is a broad and thin antero-posterior peritoneal fold, falciform (Latin "sickle-shaped"), its base…

The left lobe is smaller and more flattened than the right. It is situated in the epigastric and left hypochondriac regions. Its upper surface is slightly convex and is moulded…

The coronary ligament of the liver refers to parts of the peritoneal reflections that hold the liver to the inferior surface of the diaphragm.The convex diaphragmatic surface of the liver…

The right lobe is much larger than the left; the proportion between them being as six to one.It occupies the right hypochondrium; on its posterior surface by the ligamentum venosum…

The liver is one of the largest and most important organs in a person's body. It is about the size of a football and weighs about 3 pounds in the…