Pancreas (Tail, Body, Head, Islets of Langerhans) - Gallbladder - Liver (Hepatocyte, Space of Disse, Kupffer cell, Liver sinusoid, Hepatic stellate cell, Hepatic lobule) Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. ... The human torso Torso is an anatomical term for the greater part of the human body without the head and limbs. ... For the Physics term GUT, please refer to Grand unification theory The gastrointestinal or digestive tract, also referred to as the GI tract or the alimentary canal or the gut, is the system of organs within multicellular animals which takes in food, digests it to extract energy and nutrients, and... The pancreas is an organ in the digestive and endocrine system that serves two major functions: exocrine (producing pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes) and endocrine (producing several important hormones, including insulin). ... The tail of the pancreas, located anatomically left near the hilum of the spleen, is not simply an antomical distinction. ... The body of pancreas is somewhat prismatic in shape, and has three surfaces: anterior, posterior, and inferior. ... The head of pancreas is flattened from before backward, and is lodged within the curve of the duodenum. ... The endocrine (i. ... The gallbladder (or cholecyst, sometimes gall bladder) is a pear-shaped organ that stores about 50 mL of bile (or gall) until the body needs it for digestion. ... The liver is an organ in some animals, including mammals (and therefore humans), birds, and reptiles. ... Hepatocytes make up 60-80% of the cytoplasmic mass of the liver. ... Sinusoid of a rat liver with fenestrated endothelial cells. ... Kupffer cells or Browicz-Kupffer cells are specialized macrophages located in the liver that form part of the reticuloendothelial system. ... Sinusoid of a rat liver with fenestrated endothelial cells. ... Hepatic stellate cells, also known as Ito cells, are pericytes found in the perisinusoidal space (a small area between the sinusoids and hepatocytes) of the liver. ... A hepatic lobule is a small division of the liver defined at the histological scale. ...

Bile ducts: (Bile canaliculus, Common hepatic duct, Cystic duct, Common bile duct) - Pancreatic duct - Hepatopancreatic ampulla X-Ray of the bile duct during a laprascopic cholecystectomy A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile. ... Bile canaliculus (plural:bile canaliculi; also called bile capillaries) is a thin tube that collects bile secreted by hepatocytes. ... The common hepatic duct is the duct formed by the junction of the right hepatic duct (which drains bile from the right functional lobe of the liver) and the left hepatic duct (which drains bile from the left functional lobe of the liver). ... The cystic duct is the short (usually around a centimetre or so) duct that joins the gall bladder to the common bile duct. ... Bile, which is synthesized in the liver, is carried to the right and left hepatic ducts, which converge to form the common hepatic duct. ... The hepatopancreatic ampulla, also commonly called the Ampulla of Vater, is formed by the union of the pancreatic duct and the bile duct. ...