a) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
b) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
Id like some goose liver pate.
Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
His friend Rothwell, who had the use of the best Laveracks for breeding purposes, wrote him that one of his puppies was liver and white.
See Also: foie gras, heparin, hepatic, hepatitis, hepatocarcinoma, hepatogenous, hepatomegaly, hepatotoxicity, hepatotoxin
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