Liver Lobule Anatomy

In human digestive system. In lung further subdivides into hundreds of lobules.

Hepatic Liver Lobule 3d Model

Each lobule is made up of millions of hepatic cells hepatocytes which are the basic metabolic cells.

Liver lobule anatomy. There are two types of liver lobule which look at the same cluster of liver cells from opposite ends. The hepatic cells are polyhedral in form. The falciform ligament runs inferiorly from the diaphragm across the anterior edge of.

A subdivision of the four main liver lobes the basic functional unit of the liver. The liver also has two minor lobes the quadrate lobe and the caudate lobe. The lobules are held together by a fine dense irregular fibroelastic connective tissue layer extending from the fibrous capsule covering the entire liver known as glissons capsule.

The lobules of liver or hepatic lobules are small divisions of the liver defined at the microscopic histological scale. They vary in size from 12 to 25µ in diameter. Located on the lateral borders of the left and right lobes respectively the left and right triangular ligaments.

They contain one or sometimes two distinct nuclei. Each lobe is separated into many tiny hepatic lobules the livers functional units figure 3. The blood in the capillary plexus around the liver cells is brought to the liver principally by the portal vein.

Each lobule contains a bronchiole and affiliated branches a thin wall and clusters of alveoli. Lobules are the functional units of the liver. A small subunit of the liver composed of cells hepatocytes that process blood from an incoming portal venule and send the resulting blood to an outgoing hepatic venule.

A fibrous capsule encloses the liver and ligaments divide the organ into a large right lobe and a smaller left lobe figure 2. The lobule largely consists of hepatocytes liver cells which are arranged as interconnected plates usually one or two hepatocytes. Microscopic anatomy of clusters of cells called lobules where the vital functions of the liver are carried out.

The hepatic lobule is a building block of the liver tissue consisting of a portal triad hepatocytes arranged in linear cords between a capillary network and a central vein. Ligaments of the liver falciform ligament this sickle shaped ligament attaches the anterior surface of the liver to the anterior abdominal wall and forms a natural anatomical division. Deﬂned as a lobule figure 23.

The liver the human liver is both the largest internal organ the skin being the largest organ overall and the largest gland in the human body. The wide coronary ligament connects the central superior portion of the liver to the diaphragm. Coronary ligament anterior and posterior folds attaches the superior surface of the liver to the inferior.

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