liver : Idioms & Phrases

• noun liver of a calf used as meat
  calf's liver.
  

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• noun liver of a calf used as meat
  calf's liver.
  

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• noun 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
  cancer of the liver.
  

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• noun terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids
  venae centrales hepatis.
  

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• noun liver of a chicken used as meat
  

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• noun a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism
  cirrhosis.
  

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Cod" liv`er noun

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1. The liver of the common cod and allied species.

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• noun an oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D
  cod liver oil.
  

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• noun an oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D
  cod liver oil.
  

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• an oil obtained fron the liver of the codfish, and used extensively in medicine as a means of supplying the body with fat in cases of malnutrition.

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• one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way.

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• etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration.

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• noun 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
  

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• noun a fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish
  fish oil.
  

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• . See Wandering liver, under Wandering.
• . (Med.) See Wandering liver, under Wandering.

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• one given to the pleasures of the table.

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• noun someone who gratifies physical appetites (especially for food and drink) with more than the usual freedom
  

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Free"-liv`er noun

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1. One who gratifies his appetites without stint; one given to indulgence in eating and drinking.

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• noun liver of a goose used as meat
  

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• noun a fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A
  

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• one who indulges in a rich diet.

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• (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver.

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• the color of liver, a dark, reddish brown.

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• noun 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
  cancer of the liver.
  

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• noun a solid dark brown horse
  

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• noun a disease affecting the liver
  

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• noun flatworm parasitic in liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans
  Fasciola hepatica.
  

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• . (Old Chem.) See Hepar.

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• noun sausage containing ground liver
  liver pudding; liverwurst.
  

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• noun a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products
  black disease; distomatosis; sheep rot.
  

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• noun sausage containing ground liver
  liver pudding; liverwurst.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very large shark (Cetorhinus maximus), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also basking shark, bone shark, hoemother, homer, and sailfish sometimes referred to as 'whale shark', but that name is more commonly used for the Rhincodon typus, which grows even larger .

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• noun a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin
  liver spot.
  

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• noun a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin
  liver spot.
  

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• yellowish brown patches or spots of chloasma.

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• adjective satellite having a reddish-brown color
  liver.
  

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Liv"er-col`ored adjective

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1. Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.

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Liv"er-grown` adjective

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1. Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.

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• noun a brown-spotted dalmatian
  

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• a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life.

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• (Med.), a name applied to the liver, when, as the result of heart or lung disease, it undergoes congestion and pigmentation about the central veins of its lobules, giving it an appearance resembling that of a nutmeg.

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• noun a fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks; used for dressing leather and as a source of vitamin A
  shark oil.
  

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• (Med.), a morbid condition of the liver, similar to wandering kidney.

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• etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver affected by waxy degeneration.

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