Cirrhotic

Benedict Cumberbatch's cirrhotic host is never far from it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Health-care-as-a-right makes us sick because having no personal responsibility lets us treat our bodies badly and then expect the healthcare system to fix our obesity, our emphysema from smoking, and our cirrhotic (scarred) livers from drinking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Witness the cirrhotic drunk, or the smokers with emphysema. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's a damnable question that has served to ruin my life and forced me to become a cross-addicted, cirrhotic, obsessed aesthete with skid marks on my dick. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A severely cirrhotic liver is incapable of normal metabolism, maintenance of nutrition, and detoxification of xenobiotics. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Figure 2: The gross appearance of a cirrhotic liver. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And, on the other hand, we know that a very fibrotic live or a very cirrhotic liver is actually very hard to the touch, almost rock-hard. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And as far as I can tell, they'll now take anybody into the service ... even cirrhotic Englishmen in advanced middle-age. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)

He'd lost them both and had overnight become a diabetic old man nursing a cirrhotic liver, a bad heart, and a prostate the size of a beach ball. ❋ Cray, David (2002)

It's absence leads also to cirrhosis of the liver and some of these cirrhotic fibrous tissues may turn into cancerous tissues. ❋ Unknown (1953)

The left kidney although cirrhotic was very much enlarged. ❋ Unknown (1896)

These tend to be oval in outline, are elevated above the normal mucous membrane, and present a dull red mammilated or lobulated surface, comparable to the surface of a cirrhotic liver. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

The so-called "Human Headline" last Wednesday underwent transplant surgery to give him a fresh liver to replace the cancerous, cirrhotic organ that was slowly killing him. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Doctors said Nelson's liver was cirrhotic, his lungs damaged, his spleen the size of a football. ❋ By GREG BISHOP (2011)

"This study shows a clear association between eating dark chocolate and portal hypertension and demonstrates the potential importance of improvements in the management of cirrhotic patients, to minimize the onset and impact of end stage liver disease and its associated mortality risks," Mark Thursz, vice-secretary of the European Association for the Study of Liver, said in a news release. ❋ Canwest News Service (2010)

"This study shows a clear association between eating dark chocolate and (lower) portal hypertension and demonstrates the potential importance of improvements in the management of cirrhotic patients," said Mark Thursz, a professor of hepatology at London's Imperial College. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Spanish researchers said Thursday that eating dark chocolate capped the usual after-meal rise in abdominal blood pressure, which can reach dangerous levels in cirrhotic patients and, in severe cases, lead to blood vessel rupture. ❋ Unknown (2010)