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LIVER DISEASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease affecting the liver
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("liver disease" is a kind of...):
disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liver disease"):
cirrhosis; cirrhosis of the liver (a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism)
fatty liver (yellow discoloration as a result of the accumulation of certain fats (triglycerides) in the liver; can be caused by alcoholic cirrhosis or pregnancy or exposure to certain toxins)
hepatitis (inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin)
cancer of the liver; liver cancer (malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort)
Context examples:
Researchers report that, in imaging studies of animal models of liver disease, the new compound (a protein-based MRI contrast agent) can accurately detect early stages of chronic liver disease, including mild fibrosis.
(New compound helps find early signs of liver damage, National Institutes of Health)
Around 30 million people across Europe suffer from chronic liver diseases, for which there is currently no cure, with liver transplants being the only treatment for liver failure.
(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)
There are many kinds of liver diseases.
(Liver Diseases, NIH)
With chronic alcohol misuse, the levels and types of bacteria in the gut microbiota change which contributes along with other factors to alcohol-associated liver diseases such as alcoholic hepatitis.
(Bacteriophage therapy may ease severity of alcoholic hepatitis, National Institutes of Health)
Used to assess the prognosis of chronic liver disease, mainly cirrhosis.
(Child-Pugh Classification, NCI Thesaurus)
Bleeding disorders can be the result of other diseases, such as severe liver disease.
(Bleeding Disorders, NIH)
Ascites also occurs in patients with liver disease.
(Ascites, NCI Dictionary)
This can lead to liver disease and liver failure.
(PFIC, NCI Dictionary)
A type of chronic liver disease in which the tubes that carry bile (fluid that helps digest fat) out of the liver become damaged or blocked over time.
(Biliary cirrhosis, NCI Dictionary)
It has been associated with several genetic disorders and different clinical conditions such as liver disease, excessive alcohol intake, adrenocortical steroid therapy, and antiretroviral therapy.
(Diffuse Lipomatosis, NCI Thesaurus)
