lab 7 part 2 Flashcards
liver
-functions
- bile production
- metabolic regulation
- blood processing
liver
-located where
in the upper right quadrant or the right hypochondriac and epigastric regions
falciform ligament
divides the liver into the right and left
2 smaller lobes
quadrate and the caudate
lobes of the liver
- number
- definition
4
-composed of functional units called lobules
lobules
- shape
- how are they separated from each other
- at each point it contains
- consists of
- hexagonal
- by a thin septum
- hepatic triad or portal area
- hepatocytes
hepatic triad or portal area contains
-branches of the hepatic artery, hepatic portal vein and bile duct
hepatocytes
radiate outward from a central vein
sinusoids
channels for blood flow in liver that separate hepatocytes
blood flow in liver lobule
blood flows from the branches of the hepatic portal vein and the hepatic artery in the hepatic triad enters sinusoids
kupffer cells
- type of cells
- function
- phagocytic cells
- line sinusoids and remove debris and foreign material as the blood passes by
bile
- produced by
- secreted into
- hepatocytes
- narrow channels called bile canaliculi
right and left hepatic ducts form
common hepatic duct
how is common bile duct formed
common hepatic duct and cystic duct
how is pancreatic ampulla formed
by common bile duct and pancreatic duct