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THE LIVER. 



and shape, containing bile with globules of fat; thus prov- 

 ing, it is thought, that these cells are the real secreting 



agents of the bile, 

 and that from these 

 cells it is conveyed 

 into the pori biliarii 

 by a process not yet 

 settled. The liver 

 is developed by a 

 protrusion from the 

 intestinal canal. 



The gall-bladder 

 (Fig. 187) is situ- 

 ated in a depres- 

 sion upon the an- 

 terior part of the 

 lower surface of the 

 right lobe of the 

 liver, and is a reser- 

 voir for receiving 

 the bile. Its form 

 is conical; its larger 

 portion, or fundus, 

 projects somewhat 

 5 beyond the anterior 

 edge of the liver, 

 and looks to the 

 right, downward 

 and forward. Its 

 narrow or constrict- 

 ed portion, called the neck, is directed upward and baek- 



FIG. 190, A represents a horizontal section of three Lohules, displaying the 

 two principal systems of Blood-vessels. Ill Interlobular veins in the spaces. 

 222 Interlobular veins in the fissures. 333 Lobular venous plexus. 444 

 Jntralobalar branches of hepatic veins. 



FIG. 190, B represents the Lobular Biliary Plexus. 1 Two lobules. 222 

 Interlobular ducts. 333 Interlobular cellular tissue. 4 4 Lobular biliary 

 plexus injected. 5 5 Intra-lobular branches of hepatic vein. 6 6 Central por- 

 tions of lobules uninjected. 



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