The Liver

Question 1

What Is the role of the hepatic portal vein ?

Answer 1

Carry’s blood to the liver from the gut

Question 2

What is the role of the hepatic vein?

Answer 2

Carry blood from the liver to the heart

Question 3

What does the bile that’s produced in the liver go?

Answer 3

Gall bladder

Question 4

What supplies the liver with blood ?

Answer 4

The hepatic artery

Or the blood from the gut via the hepatic portal vein

Question 5

How many lobes does the liver have ?

Answer 5

4

Question 6

What are the 4 lobes of the liver called?

Answer 6

Right lobe
Left lobe
Caudate lobe
Quadrate lobe

Question 7

What are the important cylindrical shapes found within the liver lobes?

Answer 7

Lobules

Question 8

What is the name of the ligament which separates the right from the left lobe ?

Answer 8

Falciform ligament

Question 9

What are the liver cells called?

Answer 9

Hepatocytes

Question 10

What are the liver capillaries called that allow close contact between blood and functional hepatocytes ?

Answer 10

Sinusoids

Question 11

Explain what sinusoids are?

Answer 11

They livers blood capillaries

Allows close contact between blood and functional hepatocytes

Question 12

Explain how blood flows through the lobules ?

Didn’t know how to word this

Answer 12

Blood flows from the outside of the lobule , past rows of hepatocytes towards the central lobular vein

Question 13

What are cannaliculi ?

Answer 13

Bile transporting channels

Question 14

What are the bile transporting channels called ?

Answer 14

Cannaliculi