The structure of the liver

• annotate the diagram

  A) gall bladder

  B) hepatic artery

  C) hepatic portal vein

  D) hepatic vein

  
• what is a liver lobule?

  collection of hepatocytes in a hexagonal shape with the centre being a central vein
• annotate the diagram

  A) bile duct

  B) hepatic portal vein

  C) hepatic artery

  D) sinusoids

  E) hepatic vein

  
• annotate the diagram

  A) branch of bile duct

  B) branch of hepatic portal vein

  C) branch of hepatic artery

  D) sinusoid

  E) kupffer cell

  F) hepatocyte

  G) branch of hepatic vein

  H) bile canaliculus

  
• what is a sinusoid?


  • site of exchange in the liver between the blood and the hepatocytes
• what is the bile canaliculi?


  • bile secreted into this from the hepatocytes
• what is a kupffer cell?


  • cell that breaks down old erythrocytes, a type of macrophage