THE LIVER 



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of vessels thus formed are situated, as before said, the liver cells; and here it is that the blood is 

 brought into intimate connection with the liver cells and the bile is secreted. The endothelium of 



FIG. 1075. Magnified section of a human liver, placed in preservative a few minutes after death (electro- 

 cution). The sinusoidal endothelium is seen closely applied to the hepatic epithelial cells. The cell elements 

 of the blood in the sinusoids have been omitted, but in this as in other similarly obtained preparations 

 numerous bell-shaped forms of red blood cells were seen. 



Branch of portal vein. 

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,_ , . , _ / Small bile duct. 



-"''-." .''.'.'-'.'. .:--V'"'' .''.'.;'" ".-.. ' /' Branch of 



?'/";'.:''-.' ' ': '".' :' ' : '":.'.; '. '':' ' : -'- ; '*.':-'.'' : ''.-': ?*ff^~-- ''. hepatic artery. 







duct, i ''"'.-..''"'..' ''.-.' '. " .""."..".'. '.- .'.-'.."" 



Branch of >' ; '."'. ::.;:''":':';/-.''. '.;'.;. -.' % "'.!;''"."''.- :^"- "..'/-"" 

 hepatic artery, i '//,' .'/-.' :''.' ' -'' ''.'.'':':'' ( ''': '."'C'-'" ' 



Branch of , 

 portal vein. 



FIG. 1076. A lobule of human liver. (After Rauber-Kopsch.) 



the capillaries and the epithelial cells are closely adherent to each other, forming sinusoids. 

 Arrived at the centre of a lobule, all these minute vessels empty themselves into one vein, of 



