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The liver is the largest solid organ in the body.

It removes toxins from the body’s blood supply,


maintains healthy blood sugar levels, regulates
blood clotting, and performs hundreds of other
vital functions. It is located in the upper right
part of the abdomen.
The liver consists of four lobes: the larger right
lobe and left lobe, and the smaller
caudate (кодейт) lobe and quadrate (кводрейт)
lobe. The left and right lobe are divided by the
falciform ligament, which connects the liver to the
abdominal wall. The liver’s lobes can be further
divided into eight segments, which are made up
of thousands of lobules (лобьюлс). Each of these
lobules has a duct flowing toward the common
hepatic duct, which drains bile from the liver.
The liver regulates most chemical levels in the
blood and excretes a product called bile.
This helps carry away waste products from the
liver. All the blood leaving the stomach and
intestines passes through the liver. The liver
processes this blood and breaks down, balances,
and creates the nutrients and also metabolizes
drugs into forms that are easier to use for the
rest of the body.
The liver has many other important functions.
They are: stimulation of red bone marrow,
formation of fibrinogen, blood formation in the
embryo, storage of iron and copper, protein (проутін)
metabolism, fat metabolism, heat production and
others.
The liver removes drugs, alcohol, and
potentially harmful chemicals from the
bloodstream and treats them chemically
so they can be excreted in the
feces (фісіз) and urine.

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