Meaning of hemiliver | Babel Free

Definitions

Half of the liver.

Examples

“If this were so, he argues the left hemiliver would be deprived of depatotrophic factors, thought to come principally from the pancreas.”

“The main portal scissura (Cantle's line), which divides the liver into left and right hemilivers, lies along a line 75° from the horizontal plane opened to the left of the ex vivo liver, beginning at the IVC.”

“In addition, the diseased hemiliver acts as a transitory auxiliary liver that assists the growing FLR in metabolic, synthetic and detoxifying functions for the first and critical week after liver partition.”

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