| livedoid | Pertaining to or resembling livedo. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| livedoid dermatitis | A reddish blue mottled condition of the skin due to affection of the cutaneous vascular apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| liveliness | 1. The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age. 2. An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait. 3. Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors. Synonym: Sprightliness, gayety, animation, vivacity, smartness, briskness, activity. Liveliness, Gayety, Animation, Vivacity. Liveliness is an habitual feeling of life and interest, gayety refers more to a temporary excitement of the animal spirits, animation implies a warmth of emotion and a corresponding vividness of expressing it, awakened by the presence of something which strongly affects the mind, vivacity is a feeling between liveliness and animation, having the permanency of the one, and, to some extent, the warmth of the other. Liveliness of imagination, gayety of heart, animation of countenance, vivacity of gesture or conversation. Origin: From Lively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lively | 1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. "Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves." (Holland) 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. "But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps ? Much livelier than erewhile He seems." (Milton) 3. Gay; airy; animated; spirited. "From grave to gay, from lively to severe." (Pope) 4. Representing life; lifelike. "I spied the lively picture of my father." (Massinger) 5. Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous. "The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies." (Sir I. Newton) "His faith must be not only living, but lively too." (South) Lively stones, saints, as being quickened by the Spirit, and active in holiness. Synonym: Brisk, vigorous, quick, nimble, smart, active, alert, sprightly, animated, spirited, prompt, earnest, strong, energetic, vivid, vivacious, blithe, gleeful, airy, gay, jocund. Origin: For lifely. Cf. Lifelike. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| liver | 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) |
| liver abscess | A condition where there is a pus-filled cavity in the liver secondary to a bacterial infection. Liver abscess may result from sepsis, intestinal perforation, post-operative infection, appendicitis, diverticulitis, trauma (to the liver) or cholangitis. Other nonbacterial causes of liver abscess include amoebiasis, due to infection with Entamoeba histolytica (protozoan). (27 Sep 1997) |
| liver abscess, amebic | Liver abscess caused by entamoeba histolytica. (12 Dec 1998) |
| liver acinus | The smallest functional unit of the liver, comprising all of the liver parenchyma supplied by a terminal branch of the portal vein and hepatic artery; typically involves segments of two lobules lying between two terminal hepatic venules. Synonym: Rappaport's acinus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| liver anatomy | <radiology> Main lobar fissure: plane connecting gall bladder bed and IVC (Cantlie line), middle hepatic vein runs here, divides right and left lobes, right hepatic vein: divides anterior and posterior segments of the, right lobe, falciform ligament: divides medial and lateral segments of the left lobe, contains ligmentum teres, caudate lobe: bounded posteriorly by fossa of IVC and anteriorly by the, fissure of the ligamentum venosum (12 Dec 1998) |
| liver breath | A peculiar odour to the breath in persons with severe liver disease; caused by volatile aromatic substances that accumulate in the blood and urine due to defective hepatic metabolism. Synonym: liver breath. (05 Mar 2000) |
| liver bud | The primordial cellular diverticulum of the embryonic foregut endoderm that gives rise to the parenchyma of the liver. (05 Mar 2000) |
| liver calcifications | <radiology> TB / histoplasmosis, chronic granulomatous disease of childhood (CGD), echinococcal (hydatid) cyst, portal vein thrombosis, metastatic adenocarcinoma, giant haemangioma, hepatoblastoma (12 Dec 1998) |
| liver cancer | <oncology, tumour> A tumour of the liver. most cancer involving the liver is spread (metastatic) from other areas (colon, breast or lung). See: hepatoma. (27 Sep 1997) |
| liver cell | Usually implies hepatocytes, even though other cell types are found in the liver Kupffer cells for example). Hepatocytes are relatively unspecialised epithelial cells and are the biochemist's typical animal cell. (18 Nov 1997) |
| liver cell carcinoma | <tumour> A carcinoma derived from parenchymal cells of the liver. Synonym: hepatocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver cell carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |