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hobnail livers

hobnail livers is the plural of hobnail liver.

Meaning of hobnail liver

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

Questions about hobnail livers

What is hobnail livers the plural of?
Hobnail livers is the plural of hobnail liver.

Words near hobnail livers in the dictionary

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

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