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Webster 1913 Edition
Cirrhosis
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Cir-rho′sis
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] 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 and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.
Definition 2024
cirrhosis
cirrhosis
English
Noun
cirrhosis (plural cirrhoses)
- (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.
- (by extension) Interstitial inflammation of kidneys, lungs, and other organs.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, […] the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
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Translations
chronic disease of the liver
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Derived terms
- cirrhotic
- cirrhosed