hemiliver

English

Etymology

From 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^[1], →DOI:

     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.