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1. Liver
   a digestive and storage organ
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2. Liver
   The liver is the largest gland in the human body. The liver has three functions: it secretes bile, stores glycogen and converts waste products into urea and uric acid for excretion.
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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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 storage of fat and sugar (4) Synthesis of plasma pro …
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11. Liver
    A gland situated on the right side of the upper abdomen which secretes bile and detoxifies certain poisons.
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12. 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 inches (17 cm) vertically (down) and is 4.5 inche …
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13. 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 marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver . Fast liver , one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated w …
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14. 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 large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates. » Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes throu …
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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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 substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin A; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
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18. liver
    noun liver of an animal used as meat
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19. liver
    noun someone who lives in a place; `a liver in cities`
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20. 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 on the internal blood...
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21. 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 vertebrates. • (n.) One whose course of life has some...
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22. 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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23. liver
    The largest gland of the body, lying beneath the diaphragm in the right hypochondrium and upper part of the epigastric region; it is of irregular shape and weighs from 1–2 kg, or about 1/40 the weight of the body. As an exocrine gland it secretes bile; it initially receives most absorbed nutrients via the portal vein; it detoxifies and is also...
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24. liver
    The liver as seen from the front Position of the liver The liver is situated mostly in the top right portion of the abdominal cavity just under the diaphragm. It can be felt as a hardish mass just below the bottom right rib. Introduction The liver is the largest solid organ (the l...
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