What are the digestive functions of the liver?
Besides making bile for release in the duodenum, the liver has other digestive functions.
The venous network that absorbs nutrients from the guts, called as mesenteric circulation, drains its blood content almost totally to the hepatic portal vein. This vein irrigates the liver with absorbed material from the digestion. So the liver has the function of storing, processing and inactivating nutrients.
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