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Question 1

What is at the axis of the portal lobule?

Answer 1

The interlobular bile duct

Question 2

What do the lines of the portal lobule represent?

Answer 2

The flow of the bile

Question 3

What is the liver acinus?

Answer 3

it is lozenge-shaped and represents the smallest functional unit of the hepatic parenchyma

Question 4

What is the short axis of the liver acinus?

Answer 4

It is a line drawn from one portal triad to another that is in between two classical lobules

Question 5

What is the long axis of the liver acinus?

Answer 5

It is a horizontal line drawn from the portal triad of one lobule to the other

Question 6

What are three zones of the liver acinus?

Answer 6

Zone 1:
is closest to the short axis and the blood
supply from penetrating branches of the
portal vein and hepatic artery
This zone corresponds to the periphery
of the classic lobules.
Zone 3:
is farthest from the short axis and closest to the terminal hepatic vein
(central vein). Corresponds to the most central part of the classic
lobule that surrounds the terminal hepatic vein
Zone 2:
Lies between zones 1 and 3 but has no sharp boundaries.

Question 7

What does the mucosa of the gall bladder lack?

Answer 7

It lacks a submucosa and a muscularis mucosa

Question 8

What is the deep diverticula of the mucosa of the gall bladder

Answer 8

Rokitansky-aschoff sinuses