TASMANIAN DEVIL. 



Diaphragmatic Attachments. — The liver is not, as a 

 rule, closely bound dorsally to the diaphragm. Mesially 

 we notice what we may regard as a suspensory ligament 

 — a fine peritoneal fold attached above to the muscular 

 and tendinous portion of the diaphragm, and below to the 

 left portion of the cystic lobe, passing obliquely from the 

 left of the gall bladder fissure to the inf. vena cava and 

 the dorsal margin, and may reach the lesser omentum at 

 the oesophageal concavity. A small fissure may be noted on 

 the left cystic lobe directed to the left, in which the ventral 

 part of the suspensory ligament is lodged. In another 

 there was a small fissure on the middle of the left edge of 

 the gall bladder cleft, and the gall bladder fissure curved 

 out to the left for about 1.5 cm., and to this expansion the 

 suspensory ligament was attached. In the 4-lobed cystic 

 specimen the suspensory ligament runs from the back of 

 the lobe on the immediate left of the cystic cleft, i.e., left 

 mesial cystic. In addition, we notice a series of fine lateral 

 suspensory folds, i.e., from the right lateral and right 

 cystic dorsally to the tendinous part of the diaphragm, 

 and also 3 or 4 fine suspensory folds from the left cystic 

 and left lateral dorsally to the tendinous diaphragm, but 

 none of these pass as far forwards as the mesial suspen- 

 sorv fold. 



Visceral Surface. — As variations are met with in the 

 liver of this Marsupial it will be necessary to present two 

 descriptions of this. 



No. 1. — Here on the diaphragmatic aspect right 

 lateral and cystic lobes are practically one. Small variety. 

 Two-lobed liver. 



Left Lateral Lobe. — This is separated from the rest 

 of the liver by the left lateral fissure. It is smooth, and 

 does not project forwards to form part of the anterior 



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