Question

liver formations of the liver
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Answer 1

Liver Formation.

As a result the undifferentiated liver precursor cells known as “hepatoblasts” delaminate from the foregut epithelium and invade the adjacent mesenchyme to form the growing liver bud – a bulb of tissue emerging from the primitive gut tube.

Answer 2

Answer :-

The main function of Liver is to secrete "Bile juice" which helps in the digestion of food. The characteristics of Liver are as follows :-

• The liver is the largest gland of our body.

• The liver is located just above the stomach, under the Diaphragm.

• The liver is attached to the posterior concavity of the diaphragm by a fold of "Peritonium" called "Falciform ligament".

Extra Information :-

• The liver of an average adult human being weighs about 1.4 kg (4 lbs).

• The liver of a human being is divided into four lobes, namely- the "Right lobe", the "Left lobe", the "Caudate lobe" and the "Quadrate lobe".

• The liver of a rabbit is divided into 5 parts: 3 lobes on the left are named as- the "Spelgian lobe", the "Left lateral lobe" and the "Left central lobe", while the two lobes on the right side, are named as- the "Caudate lobe" and the "Right central lobe".

• The "Right central lobe" in the liver of rabbits, is also known as the "Cystic lobe".