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Glisson's capsule: The capsule of the liver. A layer of connective tissue surrounding the liver and ensheathing the hepatic artery, portal vein, and bile ducts within the liver. Named for the British physician, anatomist, physiologist, and pathologist Francis Glisson (1597-1677).
Glisson's capsule: The capsule of the liver. A layer of connective tissue surrounding the liver and ensheathing the hepatic artery, portal vein, and bile ducts within the ...
capsule /cap·sule/ (kap´sul) 1. an enclosing structure, as a soluble container enclosing a dose of medicine. 2. a cartilaginous, fatty, fibrous, membranous ...
Library > Science > Sci-Tech Dictionary ( ′glis·ənz ′kap·səl ) ( anatomy ) The membranous sheet of collagenous and elastic fibers covering the liver.
The outer capsule of connective fibrous tissue, surrounding the liver, the intrahepatic branches of vena portae, arteria hepatica, and the bile duct.
a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. See also: Capsule