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English: (A) The schematic shows an adult liver (red), with the gall bladder and extra hepatic ducts (green), in relation to the stomach and intestine (yellow). The extra hepatic duct system consists of the hepatic ducts (hd), which drain bile from the liver into the common hepatic duct (chd) to the gall bladder via the cystic duct (cd) and into the duodenum through the common bile duct (cbd). (B) A schematic of the cellular architecture of the liver showing the hepatocytes (pink) arranged in hepatic plates separated by sinusoid spaces radiating around a central vein. Bile canaliculi on the surface of adjoining hepatocytes drain bile into the bile ducts (green), which run parallel to portal veins (blue) and hepatic arteries (red) to form the “portal triad”. (Panel B is adapted with permission from Bloom and Fawcett: A Text Book of Histology 10th Edition).