Note 7 — ANATOMY OF THE PERITONEUM IN THE SUPRA-COLIC COMPARTMENT OF THE ABDOMEN. (continued 2)

It should be remembered that in the final adult arrangement of the abdominal viscera the liver shifts relatively backwards, so that the diaphragmatic attachment, originally directed cephalad, now looks dorsad and forms part of the dorsal or “posterior” surface of the adult organ. The original ventral surface looks cephalad, as well as ventrad, forming the convex surface which in the adult rests in contact with the abdominal wall and diaphragmatic vault, while the surface originally directed dorsad toward the stomach finally in large part has an inclination caudad forming the “inferior” surface of human anatomy.