Landmark · Visceral systems
Visceral surface of liver
Facies visceralis hepatis
- System
- Visceral systems
- Regions
- Trunk, Abdomen
- Landmark on
- Liver
DescriptionUnreviewed
The visceral surface or inferior surface is uneven and concave.
It is covered in peritoneum apart from where it attaches the gallbladder and the porta hepatis.
The fossa of gall bladder lies to the right of the quadrate lobe, occupied by the gallbladder with its cystic duct close to the right end of porta hepatis.
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Names
- Latin
- Facies visceralis hepatis
- English
- Visceral surface of liver
- French
- Face viscérale du foie
- Spanish
- Cara visceral del hígado
- Portuguese
- Superfície visceral do fígado
In the same group
- Anterior lateral segment of liver (VI)
- Anterior medial segment of liver (V)
- Left anterior lateral segment of liver (III)
- Left medial segment of liver (IV)
- Left posterior lateral segment of liver (II)
- Posterior lateral segment of liver (VII)
- Posterior medial segment of liver (VIII)
- Posterior segment of liver (I)