Definition of Cirrhosis of the liver

1. Noun. A chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism.

Exact synonyms: Cirrhosis
Generic synonyms: Liver Disease

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cirrhosis Of The Liver

cirio
cirl
cirl bunting
cirls
cirque
cirques
cirrate
cirrhi
cirrhiferous
cirrhogenous
cirrhonosus
cirrhose
cirrhosed
cirrhoses
cirrhosis
cirrhosis of the liver (current term)
cirrhotic
cirrhotics
cirrhous
cirrhus
cirri
cirriferous
cirriform
cirrigerous
cirrigrade
cirriped
cirripede
cirripedes
cirripeds
cirrocumuli

Literary usage of Cirrhosis of the liver

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Portal Cirrhosis of the Liver Under this heading I shall include (1) ordinary portal cirrhosis :he so-called atrophic cirrhosis of Laennec) ; (2) Band's ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Experimental Tuberculous Cirrhosis of the Liver.—Both French and German investigators have reported, as an accidental finding, cirrhotic changes in the ..."

3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1901)
"... for the purpose of establishing a collateral venous circulation in coses of cirrhosis of the liver appears to be founded on good physiological premises. ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"cirrhosis of the liver.1 Bv ROBERT SAUNDBY, MD. M.Sc., LL.D., FRCP. Senior Physician to the Hospital, and Professor of Medicine in the University of ..."

5. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"Alcohol is the chief cause of cirrhosis of the liver. Other poisons, such as lead and the toxic products of faulty metabolism in gout, diabetes, rickets, ..."

6. Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology by Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1901)
"Sec., as a contribution to the discussion on "Cirrhosis of the Liver," 2nd ... "Cirrhosis of the Liver in the Guinea-pig produced by a Bacillus and its ..."

7. The Lancet (1898)
"Dr. ALEXANDER JAMBS read a paper on the Various Forms of Cirrhosis of the Liver. He desired to point out that there was a unity in the pathological ..."

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