HTHSCI 1H06 Lecture : nursing anatomy and physiology notes
11 Feb 2012
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Right lobe, left lobe, caudate lobe, and quadrate lobe. Falciform ligament: it is attached to diaphragm, which divides our liver into one large right lobe and one left lobe. Ligamentum teres (aka round ligament): the umbilical vein from placenta that is becoming in the future for adult. Porta means door, so this is the door to liver, where all the blood vessels dump into live for the further process, filtering. Ducts (l&r hepatic, common hepatic, cystic, common. Also, in our liver they produce bile, and this bile follows through duct. These two ducts get together at the common hepatic duct. Gall bladder is connected with cystic duct, cystic means sac, so this is the duct that is connected with the sac. This cystic duct and common hepatic duct joins as a common bile duct, and it is going to connect with the pancreatic duct. It is now called hepatopancreatic ampulla (ampulla of vater)
