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any connection or unifying bond
a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs

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Ligament: Falciform ligament

The superior surface of the liver. ("Attachment of falciform ligament" is white band to the left.)

1: Right lobe of liver 2: Left lobe of liver 3: Quadrate lobe of liver 4: Round ligament of liver 5: Falciform ligament 6: Caudate lobe of liver 7: Inferior vena cava 8: Common bile duct 9: Hepatic artery 10: Portal vein 11: Cystic duct 12: Hepatic duct 13: Gallbladder
Latin	ligamentum falciforme hepatis
Gray's	subject #250, p.1192
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The falciform ligament is a ligament that attaches the liver to the anterior body wall. It is a broad and thin antero-posterior peritoneal fold, falciform (Latin "sickle-shaped"), its base being directed downward and backward and its apex upward and backward. The falciform ligament droops down from the hilum of the liver.

It is a remnant of the umbilical vein of the fetus and a derivative of the embryonic ventral mesentery.

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.

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.

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 paraumbilical veins.

Becomes canalised if the individual is suffering from portal hypertension, due to the increase in venous congestion blood is pushed down from the liver towards the anterior abdominal wall and pools resulting in periumbilical bruising.

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The primitive mesentery of a six weeks’ human embryo, half schematic.
Horizontal disposition of the peritoneum in the upper part of the abdomen.
Diagram to show the lines along which the peritoneum leaves the wall of the abdomen to invest the viscera.

External links[edit]

SUNY Labs 37:04-0100 - "Abdominal Cavity: The Falciform Ligament of the Liver"
SUNY Labs 38:12-0205 - "The Visceral Surface of the Liver"
SUNY Anatomy Image 8373
liver at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University)
falciform+ligament+of+liver at eMedicine Dictionary
Cross section at UV pembody/body8a

This article incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy.

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[Open lymph vessels of the ligamentum falciforme hepatis in the human].

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