What is "hobnail liver"

Hobnail \Hob"nail`\, n. [1st hob + nail.]

1. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

2. A clownish person; a rustic.
   --Milton.

   Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

n. (context medicine English) A liver that is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails, resulting from cirrhosis.