Livedo

Livor. (liv-e'-do). Same as Liver (liv'-er). The largest gland in the body, a part of the digestive tract, and situated on the right side of the abdominal cavity, just below the diaphragm. Its functions are: (i) the secretion of bile; the formation of glycogen; the production, at least at a certain period of development, of nail. See Hobnail Liver. L., Gin-drinkers', or Gin, atrophic cirrhosis of the liver. L., Granulated, or Granular, a cirrhotic liver, with a granular surface, owing to the contraction of the interlobular connective ti ue. L., Laennec's Cirrhosis of, atrophic cirrhosis of the liver. See Diseases, Table of. L.leaf. See Hepatica . L., Leukemic, a liver very much increased in $ize on account of a diffuse infiltration with leukemic, or lymphoid, ti ue. L., Mammillated. See Hobnail Liver. L-, Movable! L., Nutmeg, a condition of the See L., Floating. liver met with in heart disease, fatty infiltration, and The surface of a section has a pecuamyloid disease. The center of the lobules is liar, mottled appearance. L.-pad, a bag 112 dark, the periphery lighter in color. or cushion stuffed with medicated materials and worn •13 the. hypogastric region, for its supposed efficacy See L.-blotches. L. -patches. in hepatic disease. 12 L., Pulsation of. See L. -pulse. L.-pulse, a systolic pulsation over the region of the liver in cases of L.-rot, disease in sheep due tricuspid regurgitation. 11 to the presence in the bile-ducts of the liver of the L.-spot, hepaticum or Liver-fluke. Synonym L. -sugar. asma; pityriasis versicolor. Inferior Surface of Liver. I, 1. Left lobe. 2,2. Right lobe. 3. Quadrate lobe. 4. Caudate lobe. 5. Lobulu pigelii. 6. Hepatic artery. 7. Vena portae. 8. Fibrous cord from obliteration of the duct us venosus. 9. Gall-bladder. 10. Cystic duct. 11. Hepatic duct. 12. Fi ure for inferior vena cava. 13. Inferior vena cava. 14. Mouth of capsular vein. 15. Left hepatic vein. 16. Mouth of right diaphragmatic vein. 17. Mouth of left diaphragmatic vein. blood-corpuscles; the destruction of blood-corpuscles; the formation of a large quantity of urea; the retention and destruction of certain poisonous substances absorbed from the intestinal tract. Anatomically, it consists of five lobes the right, the left, the lobus spigelii, the lobus quadratus, and the lobus caudatus.