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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liver
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blood/brain/liver etc disorder
▪ She suffers from a rare brain disorder.
a donor heart/liver/kidney etc
▪ The technique keeps the donor heart beating while it is transported.
a heart/liver/kidney etc donor
▪ There is a shortage of kidney donors.
brain/liver/nerve etc damage
▪ If you drink a lot of alcohol it can cause liver damage.
heart/liver/kidney disease
▪ He is being treated for kidney disease.
liver sausage
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
acute
▪ In this regard, increased plasma renin activity and decreased renal prostaglandin production have been reported in patients with acute liver failure.
▪ Mrs Barnett, 35, suffered acute liver failure after a rare reaction to a drug.
▪ The site of increased resistance in patients with acute liver failure has not been clearly established.
▪ The aetiology of acute liver failure was viral hepatitis in all but one patients.
▪ This may indicate that other factors also play an important role in increasing hepatic venous pressure gradient in acute liver failure.
▪ The present study also shows a high prevalence of ascites in patients with acute liver failure.
alcoholic
▪ These results strongly implicate acetaldehyde as one of the important pathogenetic factors in the development of alcoholic liver disease.
▪ The role of genes encoding other alcohol metabolising enzymes in a genetic predisposition to alcoholic liver damage has yet to be explored.
▪ This is the first reported study to show convincingly the presence of functional hyposplenism in patients with alcoholic liver disease.
▪ However, a number of problems confront investigators applying this technique to studies of alcoholic liver disease.
▪ In alcoholic liver disease, transplant assessment was considered appropriate in the case of sustained abstinence following medical advice.
▪ The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies.
▪ It seems likely that there is a similar under recording of alcoholic liver disease in the United Kingdom as a whole.
▪ There are several possible explanations for the finding of functional hyposplenism in this group of patients with alcoholic liver disease.
chronic
▪ Splenomegaly, ascites, and extrahepatic symptoms of chronic liver disease were notably absent.
▪ Discussion Portal hypertension usually complicates the evolution of chronic liver diseases.
▪ This caution can not be overstated in light of the decreased glomerular filtration often present in chronic liver failure.
▪ As controls, cryptogenic cases of chronic liver disease - that is without ANA-H or SMA-AA, were similarly studied.
▪ The diagnosis of chronic liver disease was made by accepted clinical, serological and histological criteria.
▪ They may be appropriate, however, in patients where the history or examination points to systemic disease such as chronic liver disease.
▪ Liver transplantation has been gaining increasing support as a means of treating chronic end stage liver disease and fulminant hepatic failure.
normal
▪ All had normal liver function tests.
▪ Ten of these 15 patients had active disease but normal serum liver function tests.
▪ This particular patient had normal liver function tests and was in remission on sulphasalazine therapy only.
▪ Ultrasonography showed a normal liver, gall bladder, and biliary tree.
▪ Perhaps most important is the observation that up to a third of confirmed alcoholics have completely normal liver histology.
severe
▪ Stephanurus may occasionally cause severe liver damage in calves grazing on contaminated ground.
■ NOUN
biopsy
▪ Sixteen days after liver transplantation a deterioration in liver function tests occurred and liver biopsy showed cytomegalovirus inclusion bodies.
▪ In some cases, a liver biopsy may also be done.
▪ Within 48 hours of admission, all patients underwent a haemodynamic study during transjugular liver biopsy.
▪ Liver function tests and liver biopsy may also help in establishing the diagnosis.
▪ In four patients cirrhosis of the liver had been diagnosed at histopathological examination of liver biopsies.
▪ Plugged liver biopsies are both effective and safe when used to perform percutaneous liver biopsies in patients with impaired coagulation.
▪ A liver biopsy specimen taken from our patient shortly after reperfusion of the graft showed neutrophil infiltration.
cancer
▪ In March last year she was told she had lung and liver cancer, and without treatment would die within 6 months.
▪ He suffered a heart attack related to incurable liver cancer.
▪ Long-term consequences include chronic active hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer.
▪ Without drug therapy she risks developing liver cancer, which would make a transplant her only hope of survival.
▪ Most people who get liver cancer are afflicted with the hepatitis B virus.
▪ Some people progress to liver disease, cirrhosis and liver cancer, and the virus can be fatal.
▪ Honecker, who had terminal liver cancer, was considered to have only 18 months to live.
▪ Hepatitis B is a disease affecting the liver which can lead to death through liver cancer or liver cirrhosis. 2.
cell
▪ It is also the major cause of primary liver cell carcinoma. 7.
▪ As you enter the liver, you see ethanol molecules diffusing quickly out of the blood and into the surrounding liver cells.
▪ This substance is thought to bond to the walls of liver cells and eventually kill them.
▪ Such inhibitors also prevent the increase in calmodulin within the nucleus of liver cells following hepatectomy.
▪ Using virus vectors, Woo successfully inserted normal mouse genes for phenylalanine hydroxylase into cultured liver cells from the mutant mouse.
▪ The cells of the body are not all alike: there are liver cells, kidney cells, and so on.
chicken
▪ Frozen chicken livers are already cleaned, so if they are being used the only preliminary required is the thawing-out process.
▪ Slowly we pull it up through the resistance and find it filled with a light, savory chicken liver mousse.
▪ Add the meats to the pan with the chicken livers and brown on all sides, stirring constantly. 3.
▪ Strain sauce, return to pan, and add chicken livers and parsley.
▪ Pour it over the chicken livers.
▪ Add the cooked pork, cut in small pieces to the chicken livers in the blender.
▪ Reserve chicken livers for another use.
cirrhosis
▪ Early diagnosis and treatment prevents brain damage and liver cirrhosis.
▪ The most noticeable increase in discharges as a result of liver cirrhosis occurred between 1986-89.
▪ Hepatitis B is a disease affecting the liver which can lead to death through liver cancer or liver cirrhosis. 2.
damage
▪ The role of genes encoding other alcohol metabolising enzymes in a genetic predisposition to alcoholic liver damage has yet to be explored.
▪ In high doses, vitamin A can cause brittle nails, hair loss, headaches and liver damage.
▪ These data suggest that the risk of liver damage is greatest in patients with active viral replication before operation.
▪ Trichloroethene, a probable human carcinogen, can cause liver damage and genetic mutations in both human and animal populations.
▪ Their liver damage is usually mild, dose dependent, and reversible when the drug is stopped.
▪ This also seems to be the mechanism of piroxicam induced liver damage.
▪ Methionine or an alternative drug, N-acetylcysteine, prevents liver damage by boosting the levels of glutathione.
▪ They claim that he removed healthy wombs and bungled routine operations, leaving them with bladder, kidney and liver damage.
disease
▪ Patients with liver disease may be susceptible to infection, particularly when this is secondary to alcohol abuse.
▪ Ray, now 69 and terminally ill with liver disease, has repeatedly changed his story over the years.
▪ As controls, cryptogenic cases of chronic liver disease - that is without ANA-H or SMA-AA, were similarly studied.
▪ Testosterone administration can also increase ankle swelling in men who have edema from conditions such as liver disease or heart failure.
▪ The man drank alcohol but his liver showed no signs of alcohol-related liver disease.
▪ The diagnosis of chronic liver disease was made by accepted clinical, serological and histological criteria.
▪ The presence of liver disease may suggest a drinking problem, which predisposes the patient to forgotten head trauma and subdural hematoma.
enzyme
▪ All patients had normal serum concentrations of liver enzymes and bilirubin and were included consecutively in the study.
▪ In newborns, especially premature infants, this liver enzyme system is not fully developed or functional.
▪ Blood chemistry was monitored regularly, but showed only moderately raised liver enzymes after two weeks.
▪ In some cases, experts note, the SSRIs can also affect liver enzymes that inhibit the metabolism of other drugs.
▪ Blood chemistry showed cholestatic liver enzymes and ultrasound showed dilated bile ducts.
▪ Women who nurse their infants need to be careful as well because babies lack the liver enzymes needed to break down caffeine.
▪ Interestingly, it is apparently not the nicotine in cigarette smoke that induces liver enzymes to work more efficiently.
▪ As with alcohol, liver enzymes are marshaled to attack the molecules and disable them as quickly as possible.
failure
▪ This patient died of liver failure 2 months after the second operation.
▪ Prolonged use of the liquid, which keeps children alive in the beginning, often causes liver failure later.
▪ In 1973 Wendy Ellis, poor Wendy, a spinster, died aged thirty-five of liver failure.
▪ This caution can not be overstated in light of the decreased glomerular filtration often present in chronic liver failure.
▪ Death is mainly because of exsanguination or liver failure.
▪ She developed progressive liver failure and required a liver transplant.
▪ In this regard, increased plasma renin activity and decreased renal prostaglandin production have been reported in patients with acute liver failure.
▪ They said they were looking at complete liver failure, and swelling of the brain.
function
▪ Sixteen days after liver transplantation a deterioration in liver function tests occurred and liver biopsy showed cytomegalovirus inclusion bodies.
▪ The use of rose bengal dye was the first attempt at assessing liver function through dye excretion.
▪ Serum urea, electrolyte, and liver function tests infrequently pointed to the cause of anaemia though they did identify coexisting disease.
▪ Hepatic damage has also been reported; thus, periodic liver functions should be done.
▪ In particular, the capacity of central nervous system centres to influence liver function has not been evaluated.
▪ Because the elderly often experience a decline in liver function, these drugs are metabolized at a slower rate.
▪ All had normal liver function tests.
▪ Although changes in liver function tests are very rare, three cases of severe acute hepatitis secondary to piroxicam have been reported.
injury
▪ Toxic liver injury was defined as such if recorded in the log book of the hospitals.
▪ However, the nature and severity of the liver injury associated with graft reinfection is variable.
oil
▪ She chewed hers and found it contained cod liver oil.
▪ The cod liver oil failed, and there was more misery.
▪ Check out the Seven Seas range based on nutritious cod liver oil.
transplant
▪ Two of these patients died and one survived after receiving an emergency liver transplant allograft.
▪ Lucky was put at the top of the national liver transplant list.
▪ Without a liver transplant those with liver failure will die.
▪ He is seeking a liver transplant.
▪ He specialised in liver transplants and technically complex pancreatic surgery.
▪ She developed progressive liver failure and required a liver transplant.
▪ The long term prospects of the 48 year old man who underwent liver transplant are good.
▪ Well, there are jokes about yeast infections, frostbite, liver transplants and cereal variety packs.
transplantation
▪ Orthotopic liver transplantation was performed on 28 February 1988.
▪ Sixteen days after liver transplantation a deterioration in liver function tests occurred and liver biopsy showed cytomegalovirus inclusion bodies.
▪ However, liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma still has a place in carefully selected patients.
▪ One patient had undergone liver transplantation 6 years earlier.
▪ The increasing availability of liver transplantation during the course of the study meant that some individuals became eligible for this procedure.
▪ Indeed, chronic hepatitis C accounts for many adults referred for liver transplantation.
▪ We recommend liver transplantation as the only treatment likely to be successful in drug related submassive necrosis of the liver.
▪ Three patients underwent successful liver transplantation and two others died of hepatic failure while awaiting transplant surgery.
■ VERB
cause
▪ It could also cause liver and kidney malfunction and attack the central nervous system.
▪ Prolonged use of the liquid, which keeps children alive in the beginning, often causes liver failure later.
▪ The virus causes inflammation of the liver, but the long-term prognosis is uncertain in any particular case.
▪ Trichloroethene, a probable human carcinogen, can cause liver damage and genetic mutations in both human and animal populations.
▪ Stephanurus may occasionally cause severe liver damage in calves grazing on contaminated ground.
▪ Its build-up in the body can cause death by liver or kidney failure.
chop
▪ To prepare the stuffing, chop the livers finely and put into a bowl.
▪ Roughly chop the livers and scatter over the duck meat along with the ham.
▪ It is the crucial ingredient in chopped liver.
▪ Keep in mind that these are all sandwiches, not composed plates with the pastrami here and the chopped liver there.
develop
▪ She developed progressive liver failure and required a liver transplant.
▪ Without drug therapy she risks developing liver cancer, which would make a transplant her only hope of survival.
▪ Clearly, therefore, factors other than the cumulative amount of alcohol consumed are involved in determining which patients develop liver disease.
die
▪ This patient died of liver failure 2 months after the second operation.
▪ In 1973 Wendy Ellis, poor Wendy, a spinster, died aged thirty-five of liver failure.
▪ He tells me about the day his father died of liver failure.
produce
▪ A person with this disease can produce glucose in the liver, but can not supply glucose to the brain and body.
undergo
▪ One patient had undergone liver transplantation 6 years earlier.
▪ The long term prospects of the 48 year old man who underwent liver transplant are good.
▪ Three patients underwent successful liver transplantation and two others died of hepatic failure while awaiting transplant surgery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add the chicken gizzards and livers and saute for 5 minutes.
▪ As you enter the liver, you see ethanol molecules diffusing quickly out of the blood and into the surrounding liver cells.
▪ Deconvolution analysis of the TACs was used to improve separation of the arterial and portal venous phases of total liver blood flow.
▪ Early diagnosis and treatment prevents brain damage and liver cirrhosis.
▪ Here they're operating on the patient's liver.
▪ On the Loose After passing through the liver, you exit into a nearby blood vessel.
▪ She might have had an unknown liver defect or the symptoms were induced by the drug.
▪ The presence of liver disease may suggest a drinking problem, which predisposes the patient to forgotten head trauma and subdural hematoma.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liver

Liver \Liv"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, lives.

    And try if life be worth the liver's care.
    --Prior.

  2. A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.

  3. One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.

    Fast liver, one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way.

    Free liver, Good liver, one given to the pleasures of the table.

    Loose liver, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life.

Liver

Liver \Liv"er\, n. [AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG. lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw. lefver, and perh. to Gr. ? fat, E. live, v.] (Anat.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.

Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and Glycogen. The liver of invertebrate animals is usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs materially, in form and function, from that of vertebrates.

Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering.

Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See Hepar.

Liver brown, Liver color, the color of liver, a dark, reddish brown.

Liver shark (Zo["o]l.), a very large shark ( Cetorhinus maximus), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also basking shark, bone shark, hoemother, homer, and sailfish; it is sometimes referred to as whale shark, but that name is more commonly used for the Rhincodon typus, which grows even larger.

Liver spots, yellowish brown patches on the skin, or spots of chloasma.

Liver

Liver \Liv"er\ (l[i^]v"[~e]r), n. (Zo["o]l.) The glossy ibis ( Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liver

secreting organ of the body, Old English lifer, from Proto-Germanic *librn (cognates: Old Norse lifr, Old Frisian livere, Middle Dutch levere, Dutch lever, Old High German lebara, German Leber "liver"), perhaps from PIE *leip- "to stick adhere; fat." Formerly believed to be the body's blood-producing organ; in medieval times it rivaled the heart as the supposed seat of love and passion, hence lily-livered. Liver-spots, once thought to be caused by a dysfunction of the organ, is attested from 1730.

liver

"one who lives (in a particular way)," late 14c., agent noun from live (v.).

Wiktionary
liver

Etymology 1 a. Of the colour of liver#English (dark brown, tinted with red and gray). n. 1 (context anatomy English) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical chemical reactions. 2 (context countable uncountable English) This organ, as taken from animals used as food. 3 A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver. Etymology 2

n. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way). Etymology 3

a. (en-comparative of: live)

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WordNet
liver

  1. n. large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes

  2. liver of an animal used as meat

  3. a person who has a special life style; "a high liver"

  4. someone who lives in a place; "a liver in cities"

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Wikipedia
Liver (color)

At right is displayed the color traditionally called liver.

The first recorded use of liver as a color name in English was in 1686.

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Liver (color sample #36).

Liver may also refer to a group of certain types of dark brown color in dogs and horses. Said nomenclature may also refer to the color of the organ.

Liver (Chinese medicine)

The Liver is one of the zàng organs stipulated by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is a functionally defined entity and not equivalent to the anatomical organ of the same name.

Liver (album)

Liver is a live album by Steve Taylor, released in 1995. Its contents cover all of Taylor's career, including his time with Chagall Guevara.

Liver (disambiguation)

Liver is an organ in animals.

Liver may also refer to:

  • Liver (food)
  • Liver (Chinese medicine)
  • Liver (color)
  • Liver bird, the symbol of the city of Liverpool, England
  • Liver Music, a collection of songs by the Residents
  • Liver (album), an album by Steve Tyler
  • Liver punch, a boxing move
  • Liver spot, a blemish on the skin associated with aging and exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun
Liver (food)

The liver of mammals, fowl, and fish is commonly eaten as food by humans. Domestic pig, ox, lamb, calf, chicken, and goose livers are widely available from butchers and supermarkets.

Liver can be baked, boiled, broiled, fried, stir-fried, or eaten raw (asbeh nayeh or sawda naye in Lebanese cuisine, liver sashimi). In many preparations, pieces of liver are combined with pieces of meat or kidneys, like in the various forms of Middle Eastern mixed grill (e.g. meurav Yerushalmi). Liver is often made into spreads. Well-known examples include liver pâté, foie gras, chopped liver, and leverpostej. Liver sausages such as Braunschweiger and liverwurst are also a valued meal. Liver sausages may also be used as spreads. A traditional South African delicacy, namely Skilpadjies, is made of minced lamb's liver wrapped in netvet (caul fat), and grilled over an open fire.

Animal livers are rich in iron, copper and preformed vitamin A. Traditionally, some fish livers were valued as food, especially the stingray liver. It was used to prepare delicacies, such as poached skate liver on toast in England, as well as the beignets de foie de raie and foie de raie en croute in French cuisine. Cod liver oil is commonly used as a dietary supplement.

Liver

The liver is a vital organ of vertebrates and some other animals. In the human, it is located in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen, below the diaphragm. The liver has a wide range of functions, including detoxification of various metabolites, protein synthesis, and the production of biochemicals necessary for digestion.

The liver is a gland and plays a major role in metabolism with numerous functions in the human body, including regulation of glycogen storage, decomposition of red blood cells, plasma protein synthesis, hormone production, and detoxification. It is an accessory digestive gland and produces bile, an alkaline compound which aids in digestion via the emulsification of lipids. The gallbladder, a small pouch that sits just under the liver, stores bile produced by the liver. The liver's highly specialized tissue consisting of mostly hepatocytes regulates a wide variety of high-volume biochemical reactions, including the synthesis and breakdown of small and complex molecules, many of which are necessary for normal vital functions. Estimates regarding the organ's total number of functions vary, but textbooks generally cite it being around 500.

Terminology related to the liver often starts in hepat- from the Greek word for liver.

There is currently no way to compensate for the absence of liver function in the long term, although liver dialysis techniques can be used in the short term. Artificial livers are yet to be developed to promote long term replacement in the absence of the liver. As of now, liver transplantation is the only option for complete liver failure.

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Usage examples of "liver".

The bark is mildly aperient and causes no nausea, whilst at the same time stimulating the liver somewhat freely.

The large platter also contained smoked salmon, pickled herring, liver pate, melba toast, bagels and cream cheese, artichoke hearts and slices of Kiwi fruit and papaya.

In the end they decided to have them both, with one of her renowned liver pates for starters, followed by Canard Sauce Bigarade, which when she described it in her soft Scots voice sounded mouth watering as well as presenting an elegant appearance.

And a vitamin E blocker in raw kidney beans, alfalfa, and some peas increases the incidence of liver disease in animals.

Her physicians thought that they were caused by a disease of the liver, but they came from impurity of the blood, which at last killed her, and from which she suffered throughout her life.

The portion of the inferior vena cava that lies behind the liver, the retro hepatic portion, is extremely difficult to expose and control in an operation.

Cloth ties could then be snugged around the cava above and below the injury, and a clamp applied to the other blood vessels supplying the liver.

The bullet had entered his back and exited from his right upper quadrant, where the liver and vena cava were located.

Seventy-five percent of the wall of the retro hepatic vena cava was destroyed, as well as the veins that drained the right liver.

From the liver it is passed through the hepatic veins into the inferior vena cava, and by these it is emptied into the right auricle.

Francisco shook his head, and Angelo reached into his poncho for an unmarked glass bottle, no doubt containing chicha, the local cure for sobriety and a functioning liver.

His nose led him to a panetteria where stevedores were already buying hot ciabatta, before going on to a stall where a butcher was selling liver and tripe ragout from a steaming pot, at a copper a dip of the loaf.

Glazed eyeballs on paper doilies, a big liver like a brazil-nut, crunchy marrow-filled femurs, a row of bean-shaped kidneys, a king-size penis coyly curled against its testicles, chewy ropes of muscles, big squares of skin rolled up like apricot leather?

At the present time, I am able for office work, and feel that I am completely cured of the catarrh and have but little if any trouble with my liver.

This time we isolated hemoglobin from the blood and small quantities of the cytochromes from our liver samples.