Liver Function
Producing a certain digestive fluid
What is bile production?
Liver receives blood from two sources
What is the hepatic artery and portal vein?
How many lobes makes up the liver?
What is 2 lobes?
Projects inferiorly beyond the inferior border of the liver
What is the fundus?
Bile is produced in this structure
What is the liver?
Holding carbohydrates, triglycerides & vitamins
What is storage?
Oxygen, nutrients & toxins are taken up by these types of cells
What are hepatocytes?
The side of the liver with the larger lobe
What is the right side?
Central portion
What is the body?
Bile is stored in this structure
What is the gallbladder?
Can detoxify substances such as alcohol
What is detoxification?
Branches of the hepatic artery & portal vein carry blood into which blood vessels
What are hepatic sinusoids?
Left & right lobes are anchored together via which ligament
What is the falciform ligament?
Tapered portion
What is the neck?
These cells produce bile
What are hepatocytes?
Breaking down glycogen into glucose
What is metabolism?
Nutrients needed by other cells are secreted into the bloodstream via which vein
What is the central vein?
This ligament is the remnant of the umbilical vein of the fetus
What is the round ligament (ligamentum teres)?
Located on this side of the body
What is the right side?
The left and right hepatic ducts come together to this duct
What is the common hepatic duct?
Inactive form of vitamin D can be consumed
What is the activation of vitamin D?
The central vein eventually becomes another vein
What is the hepatic vein?
The bile duct, portal vein & hepatic artery make up which structure
What is the portal triad?
Can you live without a gallbladder?
The common hepatic duct joins with the cystic duct to form this duct
What is the common bile duct?