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hobnail liver

hobnail liver noun: a shrunken liver, hard, and covered with hobnail-like projections (nodules), resulting from cirrhosis.

hobnail liver: a shrunken liver, hard, and covered with hobnail-like projections (nodules), resulting from...
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Noun

hobnail liver (plural hobnail livers)

  1. (archaic) A shrunken liver, hard, and covered with hobnail-like projections (nodules), resulting from cirrhosis.
    • let the teacher show the relation between intemperance, crime, and immorality, and how intemperance results from imitation, habit, disease, and poverty, rather than spend her time in endeavoring to detail the dire effects of alcohol upon every tissue of the body, and to picture upon the child's...1888 August, Popular Science Monthly, Teaching Physiology in the Public Schools

Forms of hobnail liver

pluralhobnail livers

Questions about hobnail liver

What does hobnail liver mean?
Hobnail liver means a shrunken liver, hard, and covered with hobnail-like projections (nodules), resulting from cirrhosis.
What part of speech is hobnail liver?
Hobnail liver is a noun.
What is the plural of hobnail liver?
The plural of hobnail liver is hobnail livers.

Words near hobnail liver in the dictionary

  1. Hobls
  2. Hoblyn
  3. hobnail
  4. hobnail boot
  5. hobnail boots
  6. hobnail liver
  7. hobnail livers
  8. hobnailed
  9. hobnailer
  10. hobnailers
  11. hobnailing

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