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Liver
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Liver
[food] The liver of mammals, fowl, and fish are commonly eaten as food by humans. Domestic pig, ox, lamb, calf, chicken, and goose livers are widely available from butchers and supermarkets. Liver can be baked, boiled, broiled, fried, stir-fried, or eaten raw (lebanese cuisine, liver sashimi...
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Liver
A liver is a mythical bird found on the arms of the city of Liverpool, and traditionally ascribed as being the origin of the city's name, though in fact the liver was an invention after the city received its name, and it is most likely that the bird on Liverpool's arms is a young Cormorant - a stuff...
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Liver
[Chinese medicine] The Liver ({zh|c=肝 |p=gān}) is one of the zàng organs stipulated by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It is a functionally defined entity and not equivalent to the anatomical organ of the same name. ==In the context of the zang-fu concept== As a zàng, the Liver is c...
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Liver
[color] Liver is a term used to describe certain types of dark brown color in dogs and horses. In dogs, it is a dark brown shade. In horses, "liver chestnut" is a term used to describe a chocolate-colored chestnut horse. A liver chestnut is the same genetically as a regular chestnut, but the...
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Liver
a digestive and storage organ
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Liver
This nutritious organ meat filters toxins from the blood. Select the youngest liver you can find. Poultry generally offers the mildest flavored and most tender livers; pork has the strongest and toughest liver of those commonly available.
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liver
(Humans as organisms) organ which constitutes the largest gland in the body. It produces bile to aid the digestion of fats, stores glucose in the form of glycogen, and helps break down proteins and carbohydrates
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liver
[n] - a person who has a special life style 2. [n] - someone who lives in a place 3. [n] - liver of an animal used as meat 4. [n] - large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity
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liver
an organ in the body that changes food into energy, removes alcohol and poisons from the blood, and makes bile, a substance that breaks down fats and helps rid the body of wastes.
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Liver
The largest organ in the body. Responsible for making blood proteins and substances that help the blood to clot; storing vitamins; cleaning bacteria and worn out red blood cells out of the blood; getting rid of waste products, drugs and other chemicals and processing carbohydrates, fats and proteins...
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Liver
the largest organ in the body, producing many essential chemicals and regulating the levels of most vital substances in the blood
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Liver
The liver is the largest organ in the body. Its main jobs are to secrete bile (to help digestion), detoxify the blood and change food into energy.
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Liver
The largest organ in the body situated in the right upper area of the abdominal cavity. Its chief functions are: (1) The secretion of bile, which aids the digestion of food (2) The removal of toxins, medications and waste products from the blood (which may damage the liver in the process) (3) The st...
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Liver
A gland situated on the right side of the upper abdomen which secretes bile and detoxifies certain poisons.
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Liver
Liver: An organ in the upper abdomen that aids in digestion and removes waste products and worn-out cells from the blood. The liver is the largest solid organ in the body. The liver weighs about three and a half pounds (1.6 kilograms). It measures about 8 inches (20 cm) horizontally (across) and 6.5...
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Liver
Liv'er noun 1. One who, or that which, lives. « And try if life be worth the liver's care.» Prior. 2. A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn. 3. One whose course of life has some mar...
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Liver
Liv'er noun [ Anglo-Saxon lifer ; akin to Dutch liver , German leber , Old High German lebara , Icelandic lifr , Swedish lefver , and perhaps to Greek ... fat, English live , v.] (Anat.) A very ...
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Liver
Liv'er (lĭv'ẽr) noun (Zoology) The glossy ibis ( Ibis falcinellus ); - - said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
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liver
<anatomy> A solid organ located in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen. The liver plays a major role in metabolism, digestion, detoxification and elimination of substances from the body. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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liver
noun large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes su...
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liver
noun liver of an animal used as meat
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liver
noun someone who lives in a place; `a liver in cities`
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liver
(liv´әr) the large, dark-red gland located in the upper right portion of the abdomen, just beneath the diaphragm; it has a double blood supply from the hepatic artery and the portal vein. Its traditional anatomic divisions have been four lobes, called left, right, caudate, and quadrate. Based...
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Liver
• (n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn. • (n.) One who, or that which, lives. • (n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool. • (n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebra...
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liver
the largest gland in the body, a spongy mass of wedge-shaped lobes that has many metabolic and secretory functions. The liver secretes bile, a ... [28 related articles]
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