LIVER

(Germ.leber.) The viscus in which bile is secreted. It is situated in the right hypochondriac region under the diaphragm; and in the human body is divided into two lobes, of which the right lobe is the largest. There is between them a smaller lobular proce , called the Lobulus Spigelii. The ultimate arrangement of the different blood-ve els of the liver is very peculiar. It has been ably investigated by Mr. Kiernan, by whom it is described in the Philosophical Transactions. [s. 684]