hemiliver

English

Etymology

hemi- +‎ liver

Noun

hemiliver (plural hemilivers)

  1. (anatomy) Half of the liver.
    • 1987, Roderick N. M. MacSween, Pathology of the Liver, page 12:
      If this were so, he argues the left hemiliver would be deprived of depatotrophic factors, thought to come principally from the pancreas.
    • 2004, James L. Abbruzzese, Gastrointestinal Oncology:
      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.
    • 2015 December 24, “ALPPS Procedure for Extended Liver Resections: A Single Centre Experience and a Systematic Review”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0144019:
      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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