i 



THE LIVER 



1181 



ividth (horizontal) is about 20 cm., while its greatest length (measured obliquely 

 from side to side) averages about 25 em. The colour of the liver is a reddish- 

 brown. It is firm in consistency, but friable, so that it is easily ruptured. 



Surfaces and borders.^ — The most general division of the surface of the liver. 



Fig. 941. — Superior Surface of the Lwer. 



^^"^ Site of the cauddtt Spigelian) lobe 



I 



GaU-bladder 



Falciform ligament 



as above stated, is into two — the parietal and the visceral. The parietal surface 

 is again subdivided, usually into two surfaces — posterior and superior. 



The posterior surface [facies posterior] is triangular (fig. 943). It is wide on 

 the right, where the right lobe is in contact with the diaphragm (corresponding 



Fig. 942. — Inferior Surface of the Liver. 



Vena cava inferior 



Common bile-duct 

 Portal vein 

 Hepatic artery 

 Caudate (Spigelian) lobe 



Umbilical fissure 



chiefly to the 'uncovered area' of the coronary ligament), and narrow on the 

 left side, where the posterior margin of the left lobe is likewise attached to the dia- 

 phragm. At the lower, left hand corner of the right lobe is a small triangular area 

 of contact with the suprarenal body [impressio suprarenalis]. Near the mid-line 



