0 a serious disease of the liver that usually causes death: --
cirrhosis of the liver
The commonest cause of cirrhosis is alcohol consumption.
1 a serious disease of the liver (= an organ in the body) that can result in death --
After acute infection, chronic hepatitis develops in 80 % of cases and may lead to cirrhosis in 20 % of patients [3] and/or hepatocellular carcinoma [4].
Medical compounds were derived from them and used to treat such diseases as cirrhosis of the liver, cancers, kidney ailments, arthritis, hemorrhoids, and blood clots.
Primary biliary cirrhosis, an autoimmune inflammatory disorder of the intrahepatic biliary system, can be associated with a painful and/or ataxic sensory neuropathy.
Survival and symptom progression in a geographically based cohort of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis: follow-up for up to 28 years.
Pathological data were matched to number of adult parasites and presence of cirrhosis after being reviewed by two independent pathologists.
However, the ability to store thiamine might have been decreased because of liver dysfunction due to liver cirrhosis.
68-year-old man with a history of chronic lymphatic leukaemia and liver cirrhosis who became infected while catching eels in the sea.
Hepatic fibrosis and its end-stage - cirrhosis - are a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide.