Key Terms: Liver

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Appears as bright echogenic foci on transverse image; along with falciform ligament, it divides medial and lateral segments of the left lobe of the liver

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Ligamentum teres

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Uncontrolled increase in blood glucose level

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Hyperglycemia

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Yellow pigment in bile formed by the breakdown of red blood cells; excreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder

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Bilirubin

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Tumor that develops away from the site of the organ; most common form of neoplasm of the liver; primary sites are the colon, breast, and lung

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Metastatic disease

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Vein formed by union of the splenic vein and superior mesenteric vein; serves as the posterior border of the pancreas; enters the liver at the porta hepatis

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Main portal vein

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Area superior to the liver that is not covered by peritoneum so that the inferior vena cava may enter the chest

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Bare area

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Affects hepatocytes and interferes with liver function

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Diffuse hepatocellular disease

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Extends from the umbilicus to the diaphragm in a sagittal plan and contains the ligamentum teres

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Falciform ligament

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Right upper quadrant of the abdomen that contains the liver and gallbladder

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Right hypochondrium

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Supplies the right lobe of the liver, branches into the anterior and posterior segments

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Right portal vein

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A parenchymal liver cell that performs all functions ascribed to the liver

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Hepatocyte

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Left upper quadrant of the abdomen that contains the left lobe of the liver, spleen, and stomach

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Left hypochondrium

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Largest lobe of liver

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Right lobe

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Any new growth

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Neoplasm

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Laboratory measurement of the amount of nitrogenous waste and creatinine in the blood; waste products accumulate in the blood when kidneys malfunction

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Blood urea nitrogen

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Specific laboratory tests that look at liver function

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Liver function test

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Hypoechoic mass with an echogenic central core

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Bulls eye lesion

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Lies in the epigastrium and left hypochondrium

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Left lobe of liver

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Flow away from the liver

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Hepatofungal

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Boundary between the right and left lobes of the liver; seen as a hyperechoic line on the sagittal image extending from the portal vein to the neck of the gallbladder

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Main lobar fissure

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Separates the left lobe from the caudate lobe; shown as an echogenic line on the transverse and sagittal images

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Ligamentum Venosum

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Flow toward the liver

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Hepatopedal

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Within the liver

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intrahepatic

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Area between the right and left hypochondrium that contains part of the liver, duodenum, and pancreas

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Epigastrium

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Classifications of liver disease where main problem is blocked bile excretion within the liver or biliary system

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Obstructive disease

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Deficiency in blood glucose levels

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Hypoglycemia

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Pus forming collection of fluid

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Pyogenic abscess

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Supplies the left lobe of the liver

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Left portal vein

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Smallest lobe of the liver situated on the posterosuperior surface of the left lobe; ligamentum venosum is the anterior border

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Caudate lobe

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Classification of liver disease where hepatocytes are the primary problem, a opposed to obstruction of bile secretion

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Hepatocellular disease

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Circulation that develops when normal venous channels become obstructed

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Collateral circulaiton

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Outside the liver

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Extrahepatic