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cirrhosis of the liver

n. a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism [syn: cirrhosis]

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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.

Waldo went on to explain that the only trouble with Sister Ramona's scam was that her boys kept kicking off of cirrhosis of the liver and freezing to death in the winter when her parking lot became covered over with snowdrifts that she never bothered to clear out.

It would only elicit remarks in kind about cirrhosis of the liver.

It's a medical fact: No one your age has ever contracted cirrhosis of the liver.