Right lobe of liver

The right lobe of liver (lobus hepatis dexter) is much larger than the left; the proportion between them being as six to one.

It occupies the right hypochondrium, and is separated from the left lobe on its upper surface by the falciform ligament; on its under and posterior surfaces by the left sagittal fossa; and in front by the notch for ligamentum teres (umbilical notch). It is of a somewhat quadrilateral form, its under and posterior surfaces being marked by three fossæ: the porta and the fossa for the gall-bladder and groove for inferior vena cava, which separate it into two smaller lobes; the quadrate and caudate lobes.

Varying from sources, it is not clear if the quadrate and caudate lobes. belong to the right lobe of liver (in Gray's for example) or if these two lobes may be considerate as separated lobes like in the Terminologia Anatomica 1&2.