Digestive / VISUAL EXPLAINER
HOW FATTY LIVER DEVELOPS INSIDE YOUR LIVER
Fatty liver involves excess fat within liver cells. Lipid droplets store fat inside these cells. Fat accumulation and scar tissue are different structural changes.
READ THE IMAGE
What the illustration shows
Navy medical poster titled HOW FATTY LIVER DEVELOPS INSIDE YOUR LIVER. A small liver locator connects to enlarged adjoining peach hepatocytes. Gold lipid droplets lie inside the cells around purple nuclei, with labels for hepatocyte, intracellular lipid droplets, nucleus and cell boundary. Two lower cell cutaways contrast less and more intracellular fat without a stage or time arrow. Text distinguishes fat accumulation from scar tissue and says droplet sizes and numbers are illustrative, not a diagnostic image. Gold AllHumanBody.com and the slogan REAL ANATOMY. REAL KNOWLEDGE. A HEALTHIER TOMORROW. appear on the plain navy footer.
How to interpret this poster
- Droplet sizes/numbers illustrative, not measured burden, diagnosis, stage or cause. No blame, alcohol/diet advice, reversibility or inevitable progression.
- AI-assisted educational illustration; not physician certification, a diagnosis or individualized medical advice.
- Fine annotations require enlargement; preserve the full uncropped illustration and its qualifiers.
AI-assisted educational illustration, adapted into web-sized images without changing its composition. This is general education, not an individual diagnosis or treatment recommendation.
EVIDENCE / CONTEXT
Sources and what they support
- MedlinePlus: Steatotic liver disease ↗
Excess fat in liver cells, distinguished from inflammatory/scarring changes.
- Liver lipid-droplet review ↗
Intracellular neutral lipid storage and hepatic steatosis.
Evidence correspondence is limited to the abstract. - NIDDK: NAFLD/NASH definitions ↗
Fat accumulation distinct from added inflammation/scarring.