The amazing human liver

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artiteacher Sort nutrients and filter toxins to discover how the liver runs your body's chemical factory.

artiteacher The ultimate multi tasker

Even with a fraction, I can grow right back! (Grow right back!) / The only organ regrowing on a comeback track! (Comeback track!)

artiteacher The secret iron vault in your body

artiteacher The liver acts as a massive storage locker for essential vitamins and minerals.

artiteacher Unlike most organs, the liver receives blood from two entirely different pipelines to do its job.

Fun Fact

Liver weight: The human liver is so heavy that it accounts for about two percent of an adult's entire body weight.

Glossary

liver (noun)
A large, lobed organ in the abdomen of vertebrates that cleanses the blood and secretes bile. This three-pound organ performs over five hundred distinct functions, including filtering blood and producing bile.

Gossip

If your liver could speak, what would it complain about most?

Quiz

Approximately how many distinct chemical functions does the liver perform daily?

artiteacher The double blood highway of the liver

Quiz

Which blood vessel brings nutrient-rich blood from the digestive tract to the liver?

artiteacher Manufacturing the building blocks of blood

Quiz

Which protein manufactured by the liver stops blood vessels from leaking fluid?

artiteacher The heavy duty hero of your abdomen

Quiz

Besides vitamins, which essential mineral does the liver store in large amounts?

Quiz

Which vitamin is stored in large quantities by the human liver?

Quiz

Which liver-produced protein is essential for blood clotting after an injury?

Quiz

What is the approximate weight of an adult human liver?

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Where is the liver located in the human body?