| Ligament: Falciform ligament | | | | | [[Image:|250px|center|]] | | | Latin | ligamentum falciforme hepatis | | Gray's | subject #250 1192 | | MeSH | [1] | The falciform ligament is a broad and thin antero-posterior peritoneal fold, falciform in shape, its base being directed downward and backward, its apex upward and backward. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
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It is situated in an antero-posterior plane, but lies obliquely so that one surface faces forward and is in contact with the peritoneum behind the right Rectus and the diaphragm, while the other is directed backward and is in contact with the left lobe of the liver. In higher vertebrates, the peritoneum is the serous membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity - it covers most of the intra-abdominal organs. ...
A diaphragm is some sort of separating membrane. ...
The liver is one of the largest internal organs of the human body. ...
It is attached by its left margin to the under surface of the diaphragm, and the posterior surface of the sheath of the right Rectus as low down as the umbilicus; by its right margin it extends from the notch on the anterior margin of the liver, as far back as the posterior surface. A diaphragm is some sort of separating membrane. ...
An umbilicus which appears as a depression in the abdomen is referred to as an innie. The umbilicus (commonly called a navel, or belly or tummy button), is essentially a scar caused at birth by the removal of the umbilical cord from a newborn baby. ...
It is composed of two layers of peritoneum closely united together.
Its base or free edge contains between its layers the round ligament and the parumbilical veins.
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