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n. 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.

n. Chronic interstitial inflammation of any tissue or organ.

n. 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.

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

n. 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.

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

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

"The liver cells shrink, the structural framework increases in size at first but subsequently contracts, producing the small, nodular, hard liver, to which the term cirrhosis has been applied."

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