Liver 2
Liver 2 : Large tubular vertebrate gland that secretes bile and acts in the formation of blood and in the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins & minerals. Our bodies filtering system. (2) Large gland of a dark-red color situated in the upper part of the abdomen on the right side. Also called Hepar. Its domed upper surface fits closely against and is adherent to the inferior surface of the right diaphragmatic dome, and it has a double blood supply from the hepatic artery and the portal vein. It comprises thousands of minute lobules (lobuli hepatitis), the functional units of the liver. Its manifold functions include the storage and filtration of blood, the secretion of bile, the excretion of bilirubin and other substances formed elsewhere in the body, and numerous metabolic functions, essential to life. (3) A large very vascular glandular organ of vertebrates that secretes bile and causes important changes in many of the substances contained in the blood which passes through it (such as converting sugars into glycogen which it stores up until required and by forming urea) and that in humans is the largest gland in the body, weighs from 40 to 60 ounces (1100 to 1700 grams), is a dark red color, and occupies the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity immediately below the diaphragm
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