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Ligament: Falciform ligament
The superior surface of the liver. ("Attachment of falciform ligament" is white band to the left. )
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
8: Common bile duct
9: Hepatic artery
10: Portal vein
11: Cystic duct
12: Hepatic duct
13: Gallbladder
Latin ligamentum falciforme hepatis
Gray's subject #250 1192
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The falciform ligament is a broad and thin antero-posterior peritoneal fold, falciform (Latin "sickle-shaped") in shape, its base being directed downward and backward, its apex upward and backward. The right lobe is much larger than the left the proportion between them being as six to one The left lobe is smaller and more flattened than the right It is situated in the Epigastric and left Hypochondriac regions The quadrate lobe is an area of the Liver situated on the under surface of the right lobe bounded in front by the Anterior margin of the liver; behind by the For other structures with similar name see Round ligament. In Anatomy, the round ligament of (the liver (also commonly known by its The caudate lobe ( posterior hepatic segment I, Spigelian lobe) is situated upon the postero-inferior surface of the liver on the Left lobe of the liver, The inferior vena cava (or IVC is the large Vein that carries de-oxygenated Blood from the lower half of the body into the Heart. Bile, which is synthesized in the liver is carried to the right and left hepatic ducts which converge along with the Cystic duct to form the Common hepatic duct. The cystic duct is the short Duct that joins the Gall bladder to the Common bile duct. The common hepatic duct is the duct formed by the convergence of the Right hepatic duct (which drains bile from the Right functional lobe of the liver) and the The gallbladder (or cholecyst sometimes gall bladder is a small organ whose function in the body is to store Bile and aid in the digestive process Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Gray's Anatomy the Respiratory apparatus ( Apparatus Respiratorius Respiratory system Respiratory apparatus Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group

Is a remnant of the ventral mesentery of the fetus.

It is situated in an antero-posterior plane, but lies obliquely so that one surface faces forward and is in contact with the peritoneum behind the right rectus and the diaphragm, while the other is directed backward and is in contact with the left lobe of the liver. In higher Vertebrates the peritoneum is the Serous membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity &mdash it covers most of the intra-abdominal The rectus abdominis muscle (commonly known as "abs" is a paired Muscle running vertically on each side of the anterior wall of the human abdomen (and in some other For other types of diaphragm see Diaphragm. In the Anatomy of Mammals the thoracic diaphragm is a sheet of Muscle The liver is a vital organ in the human body and is present in Vertebrates and some other animals

It is attached by its left margin to the under surface of the diaphragm, and the posterior surface of the sheath of the right Rectus as low down as the umbilicus; by its right margin it extends from the notch on the anterior margin of the liver, as far back as the posterior surface.

It is composed of two layers of peritoneum closely united together.

Its base or free edge contains between its layers the round ligament and the paraumbilical veins. In the course of the Ligamentum teres of the Liver and of the Middle umbilical ligament, small veins ( parumbilical) are found which establish an Anastomosis


Additional images

The primitive mesentery of a six weeks’ human embryo, half schematic.

Horizontal disposition of the peritoneum in the upper part of the abdomen.

Diagram to show the lines along which the peritoneum leaves the wall of the abdomen to invest the viscera.

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