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There is the term “corset liver”. It describes changes (“grooves”) on the liver’s surface following external compression and subsequent local atrophy, e.g. from wearing a corset for a long time. (see Dancygier: Clinical Hepatology) A paper from the 1980s describes some abnormality in the histological findings of liver tissue of dogs after chronic abdominal ...

Yes, the blood from the hepatic artery (proper) and the portal vein mix in the sinusoids of the liver. The hepatic vein supplies about 75% of the blood to the liver, and the hepatic artery the remaining 25%. Because the portal vein provides such a large part of the blood supply to the liver, then any disease that causes the blood to build up can cause portal ...

It's old and I can't get access to this issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Science, but it looks like it has some relevant information. Sifting through the abstracts it seems the vasculature of the fetal liver is completed at around 8 weeks although is still different to the adult vasculature because of the umbilical vein. The growth of the organ ...

I found that a search through Google Books was helpful... While without the excretion of feces, it might seem as if the liver would not be active, but the liver tissue is not only active in development and tissue generation but serves direct physiological function as well. After initial phases of development, the liver produces fetal red blood cells which ...