Cirrhosis

What do we mean by cirrhosis?

A chronic disease of the liver characterized by the replacement of normal tissue with fibrous tissue and the loss of functional liver cells. It can result from alcohol abuse, nutritional deprivation, or infection especially by the hepatitis virus. noun

Chronic interstitial inflammation of any tissue or organ. noun

In pathology, chronic inflammation of interstitial connective tissue, especially of the liver. noun

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. noun

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. noun

Interstitial inflammation of kidneys, lungs, and other organs. noun

A chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism noun

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.

Words that are spelled similarly to cirrhosis:
cirrhosis, cirhosis, cirrhoses, cirrhotic, cirrhous, cirrhose.

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Adjectives that are often used to describe cirrhosis:
primary, hepatic, alcoholic, portal, advanced, postnecrotic, biliary, hypertrophic, decompensated, atrophic, secondary, severe, cardiac, experimental, cryptogenic, micronodular, macronodular, indian, chronic, induced, active, nodular, true, syphilitic, renal, progressive, related, xanthomatous, stage, ordinary, multilobular, nutritional, focal, infantile, toxic, obstructive, inactive, posthepatitic, necrotic, juvenile, familial, called, dietary, compensated, diffuse, nonalcoholic, congenital, asymptomatic, associated, pigmentary, mild, frank, congestive, idiopathic, eventual, uncomplicated, stable, coarse, pericellular, cholangiolitic, mixed, fatal, existing, moderate, cholestatic, terminal, liver, periportal, pulmonary, latent, incomplete, ascitic, concomitant, irreversible, standing, florid, hepatitic, marked, posthepatic, infectious, nonazotemic, symptomatic, tuberculous, incipient, preexisting, septal, muscular, viral.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective cirrhosis:
results, mortality, patients, rates, accounts, deaths, ranks, syndrome, liver, causes, etiology, fig, figure, due, brinton, definition, disease.

Consonant match to cirrhosis:
cyesis.

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