This organ converts some triglycerides [try-GLIS-uh-"rides"] and cholesterols into very low-density lipoproteins and produces water-soluble proteins found in blood plasma known as albumins.
This organ converts some triglycerides [try-GLIS-uh-"rides"] and cholesterols into very low-density lipoproteins and produces water-soluble proteins found in blood plasma known as albumins. It is where the combination of  albumin and bilirubin [bil-ee-ROOB-in] becomes soluble in water, and disease in this organ affects the ratio of those substances, causing swelling and jaundice [JAWN-dis]. This organ covers the gallbladder, and until bone marrow takes over, during most of gestation it produces red blood cells in the embryo. Name this primary location of the urea cycle, an organ that produces bile and that becomes scarred by cirrhosis or inflamed by hepatitis.
This organ converts some triglycerides [try-GLIS-uh-"rides"] and cholesterols into very low-density lipoproteins and produces water-soluble proteins found in blood plasma known as albumins.
liver