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Definition of cirrhosis noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

cirrhosis

noun
 
/səˈrəʊsɪs/
 
/səˈrəʊsɪs/
 [uncountable]
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  1. a serious disease of the liver, caused especially by drinking too much alcoholTopics Health problemsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryCirrhosis is used after these nouns:
    • liver
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    Word Originearly 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek kirrhos ‘tawny’ (because this is the colour of the liver in many cases).
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