cirrhosis of the liver

1. 1.

   a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism

   Synonymscirrhosis

   Broaderliver disease

Questions about cirrhosis of the liver

What does cirrhosis of the liver mean?

cirrhosis of the liver means "a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism".

What is another word for cirrhosis of the liver?

Close synonyms include cirrhosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cirrhosis of the liver a common word?

cirrhosis of the liver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.