liv'er

[A.S. lifer."] Hepar, jecur; the largest gland of the body, lying beneath the diaphragm in the right hypochondrium and upper part of the epigastrium; It is of Irregular shape ^ and weighs from 3 to 3^ pounds, or about the weight of the body. It secretes the bile and is also of great Importance in both carbohydrate and proteid metabolism, acute' yel'low at'rophy of the 1., icterus gravis, malignant jaundice, acute parenchymatous hepatitis; a disease marked by rapid destruction of the parenchyma cells of the liver and atrophy and softening of the entire organ, with symptoms of jaundice, hemorrhages, and cerebral disturbances brim's tone 1., a bright yellow, bile-stained liver, seen in congenital syphilis and acute yellow atrophy, car'diac hepatic congestion with Intra lobular cellular destruction, due to backward venous pre ure in heart disease, cyanotic atrophy of the 1., pseudo cirrhosis. fi ures of the 1., five in number: (i) umbilical, (2) of the duct us venosus (these two constituting the left sagittal fi ure), (3) portal or porta hepatis, (4) for the vena cava, (5) for the gall-bladder (these two constituting the right sagittal fi ure); see also under fo a and porta hepatis. hob'nail atrophic or portal cirrhosis of the the contraction of the connective-ti ue septa and cell proliferation causing a pebbly or small lobular appearance of the surface, in'fantile biliary cirrhosis* of children. lard a'ceo us waxy Ug'aments of the 1., five in number coronary, two lateral, longitudinal, and roimd ligament, lobes of the L, four In number: lobus caudatus, or lobus Spigelii, lobus hepatis dexter, lobus hepatis sinister, and lobus quadratus. nut'meg chronic congestion of the liver with hyperplasia of the connective ti ue of the organ; cyanotic atrophy of the 1. trop'ical 1., chronic congestion of the liver resulting in hypertrophic cirrhosis, with occasionally lardaceous or fatty degeneration, occurring in northerners who have lived for many yea™in the tropics, wax'y amyloid degeneration of the liver, yellow at'rophy of the acute yellow atrophy of the absce , he pat apo stem a. atrophy, hep a to phthisis, he pat atrophia. calculus, hepatoHth, gallstone, cancer, hep atoc arc in i a, hep a to carcinoma, hepatomye- Stedman's Medical Dictionary