The structural unit of the liver is a liver/hepatic lobule. A single human liver lobule includes parts of a number of hepatic (liver) acini, each centred on a portal tract.
However the physiology of the liver is more accurately represented by the unit structure known as the hepatic acinus.
However the physiology of the liver is more accurately represented by the unit structure known as the hepatic acinus.
by med-urbane February 17, 2010