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Liver disease
Answer for the clue "Liver disease ", 9 letters:
cirrhosis
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Word definitions for cirrhosis in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism [syn: cirrhosis of the liver ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cirrhosis \Cir*rho"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? orange-colored: cf. F. cirrhose. So called from the yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when cut.] (Med.) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en pathology) A chronic disease of the liver caused by damage from toxins (including alcohol), metabolic problems, hepatitis or nutritional deprivation. It is characterised by an increase of fibrous tissue and the destruction of liver cells. 2 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cirrhosis is a condition in which the liver does not function properly due to long-term damage. Typically, the disease comes on slowly over months or years. Early on, there are often no symptoms. As the disease worsens, a person may become tired, weak , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1827, coined in Modern Latin by French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) with -osis and Greek kirrhos "tawny," which is of unknown origin. So called for the orange-yellow appearance of the diseased liver. Related: Cirrhotic .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE biliary ▪ Liver biopsy showed that this patient already had secondary biliary cirrhosis . ▪ The second had primary biliary cirrhosis and died from a variceal bleed while under review. ▪ This can progress to bile ...
Usage examples of cirrhosis.
When the colon is distended, it becomes a mechanical impediment to the free circulation of the blood in other organs, and causes congestion of the portal system, predisposing to chronic inflammation or cirrhosis of the liver.
Kemal, champion of Westernization and the secular Turkish state, would remain true to those principles to the end, dying at fifty-seven of cirrhosis of the liver.
Her marriage, like those of Martha Tabram and Polly Nichols, was said to have broken up over her drinking, but since John died four years later of cirrhosis, one might suspect the problem was not one-sided.
It has been found that stress contributes to heart disease, strokes, cancer, breathing problems, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, suicide, and many other leading causes of death.
He had died on November 30--of dropsy, it was said, but most likely of cirrhosis as well.
The father died in a distant hospital, bloated with cirrhosis, scribbling an ecstatic but incoherent history of human creation, convinced his pen was spirit-guided by John the Baptist.
Naomi was the only child of my brother Aaron, who died of cirrhosis at thirty-three.
For one thing, it excludes diagnoses: anyone who speaks of cryptogenic cirrhosis has excluded alcoholic or post-hepatitic cirrhosis.
The minority view -- there is always a minority view, and if I do not mention it, its scrofulous adherents are going to write me insulting letters -- holds that Herod succumbed to a combination of cirrhosis of the liver, hypertension, and diabetes.
When I did the autopsy, I found that this Harmonica Man was an alcoholic with cirrhosis of the liver, and he had varicose veins in the esophagus.
A fracture, a burn, a cut, a dropsy, a menopause, a pregnancy, two pelvics, a scattering of colds, a feeding schedule, two teethings, a suspicious lung, a possible gallstone, a cirrhosis of the liver and Martha Anderson.
If the street cleaner hadn't got him, cirrhosis of the liver would have in another year or two.
But when one of them dies of a stroke or cirrhosis of the liver or pancreatitis, no one ever says he had what was coming to him.
They'll just drink themselves into cirrhosis of the liver and play poker until their eyes give out.
When I'm chief of police and you're my chief of detectives I don't want you croaking of cirrhosis of the liver.