v) Liver and Pancreas:
The Liver is a large reddish-brown gland located
adjacent to the stomach. Its secretion is known as bile. Between the lobes of the liver is a rounded pouch called gallbladder, which stores bile. A bile duct arises from it. On its way, this duct passes through pancreas and joins the pancreatic duct. The pancreas lies between stomach and duodenum, the first part of small intestine. Its secretion, pancreatic juice, is carried by the pancreatic duct. The pancreatic duct and the bile duct join to form a common hepato-pancreatic duct, which then opens into duodenum. The bile and the pancreatic juice help in the complete digestion of the food in the small intestine.
