Liver

Ans. V, VI, VII and VIII

 Hepatic vein

• Between two layers of coronary ligaments, there is a large triangular area in diaphragmatic surface of liver which is not covered by peritoneum.
• It is called ‘bare area of liver’.
• It is related to inferior vena cava (IVC).
• The hepatic veins (usually three) leave the liver in bare area.
• This area is clinically important as it is a site where infection can spread from abdominal cavity to thoracic cavity.

 Caudate lobe (segment I) is a physiological independent part of liver, supplied by both right and left hepatic arteries; right and left branches of portal vein and drains bile into both right and left hepatic duct.

Ans. is ‘c’ i.e., 1400-1600 gm

• Liver is the largest gland of body situated in right upper quadrant of abdominal cavity and occupies whole of the right hypochondrium, greater part of epigastrium with extension into left hypochondrium.
• It weighs about 1500-1600 gm in males and 1200-1300 gm in females.
• Liver has five surfaces : anterior, posterior, superior, inferior and right.
• It has only one prominent border, inferior border.
• Liver is covered by Glisson’s capsule.
• Interior of liver is divided into hexagonal lobules.
• Lobule contains sinusoids which have fenesterated endothelium covering the subendothelial space of Disse.
• Two important cells in liver are hepatocytes (Parenchymal cells) and kupffer cells (monocytic-mocrophages).

Ans. is ‘a’ i.e., I

Ans. is ‘b’ i.e., Collagen III & IV