cirrhosis
noun/səˈrəʊsɪs/
/səˈrəʊsɪs/
[uncountable]- a serious disease of the liver, caused especially by drinking too much alcoholTopics Health problemsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryCirrhosis is used after these nouns:
- liver
Word Originearly 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek kirrhos ‘tawny’ (because this is the colour of the liver in many cases).Definitions on the go
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