the liver

An oblong elevation (with its long axis running anteroposteriorly) on the lower surface of the liver in front of the transverse fi ure and between the gall-bladder and the longitudinal fi ure. Riedel's 1. See floating I. slender 1. A narrow portion of the inferior surface of one of the cerebellar hemispheres, bounded in front by the biventral 1. and behind by the posterior inferior 1. spigelian 1. (of the liver). An irregular quadrangular portion of the liver lying behind the fi ure for the portal vein and between the fi ure for the vena cava and the duct us venosus. temporal 1. See temporosphenoidal I. temporo-occipital 1. The posterior inferior portion of the mesial surface of the cerebral hemisphere, including the fusiform lobule and the inferior occipitotemporal convolution. temporosphenoidal 1. A pyramidal portion of the brain, limited anteriorly and superiorly by the posterior limb of the fi ure of Sylvius, while posteriorly it runs into the occipital 1. true optic l's. The anterior corpora quadrigemina, so called because they represent the real termination of the optic tracts. [Lat., lobus, Gr.,