Liver

• Detoxifies nutrients brought to

  liver from absorbing digestive organs
• Liver processes

  drugs and toxins within body
• Liver stores

  iron
• Liver function is to produce

  bile, plasma protein
• Liver breaks down


  old red blood cells, decomposes hemoglobin, and excretes the bilirubin waste in the bile
• Liver located in


  right upper quadrant of abdomen
• Liver is 


  2nd largest organ of adult human body
• Liver is divided into

  right, left, caudate, and quadrate lobes
• Liver is anchored to

  abdominal wall by ligamentum teres and falciform, coronary, and lateral ligaments
• Porta hepatis


  site of hepatic artery, hepatic portal vein, and common bile duct
• Liver is organized into

  lobules
• Microscopic lobules receive

  blood from hepatic portal vein and hepatic artery
• Blood flows through

  sinusoids to the central veins
• Hepatic artery delivers


  oxygen and nutrients to hepatocytes
• Hepatic portal vein delivers

  blood from intestinal absorption for detoxification
• Central veins form

  hepatic veins and return blood to inferior vena cava