Liver. 



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360. The Liver, Hepar. View from above. 



The liver lies in the right hypochondrium and extends across 

 into the left. Its anterior border, thin and sharp, is marked by a deep 

 notch for the attachment of the Ligamentum suspensorium (broad, falciform 

 ligament) ; its posterior rounded border is higher than the anterior ; the 

 right border is also rounded, the left, sharp, lies in front of the cardia 

 of the stomach. The upper surface is convex and exactly moulded to the 

 under surface of the diaphragm ; it is marked off into a large right 

 and a small left portion by the line of attachment of the suspensory 

 ligament. The under surface of the liver (see Fig. 361) is divided 

 by four fissures into five lobes; the fissures are: the fissure for the gall- 

 bladder, the longitudinal fissure (divided into umbilical fissure and 

 fissure for the Ductus venosm), the transverse fissure and the fissure 

 for the inferior Vena cava. To the right of the fissure for the gall-bladder 

 is the right lobe of the liver, to the left of the longitudinal fissure 

 the left lobe ; in front of the transverse fissure is the Lobulus quadratus, 

 behind it the Lobulus Spigdii with the conical Tuberculum papittarc, and 

 with a process, the Tulerculum caudatum s. Lobulus caudafm, which extends 

 to the under surface of the right lobe. 



