Where exactly is the liver?

Question

Is it on the right side OF THE PATIENT or the doctor? Everything I read says it's on the right side, however when I look at anatomy sites on line that include cadaver cross-sections, it is clearly on the patient's left side.

Answer 1

Right upper quadrant.



Want to feel yours? Push in just under the ribs on the right side of your abdomen, and take a deep breath in. You can feel the edge of your liver come under your fingers.



http://www.llu.edu/llumc/transplant/images/liver-abdomen.jpg

Answer 2

It's under the onions.

Sorry. It really is on the right. They aren't lying to you. I don't know what sites you're looking at, but in normal anatomy charts, the "patient" is facing you, so the left side of the page is the right side to the guy in the pic.

Answer 3

The right side of the patient would be the left side of the piece of paper you are looking at!

Answer 4

There's normal variants in the size of organs, granted, but we agree that the liver in in the right upper quadrant of the patient. The liver is big and it can even wrap around to the left side... but it is a right upper quadrant abdominal organ.

Answer 5

Liver is always on the right side just below the right lung. thats y your left lung is a bit lower coz of the heart on left.

Answer 6

most of it is on the right side, including all the bile ducts, but it does go all the way across to the left side.