liverlessadj.
/ˈlɪvələs/, U.S. /ˈlɪvərləs/ That has no liver, or a non-functioning liver (usually figurative or hyperbolical); deprived of the liver, esp. by surgery.
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tongueless1398
unbowelled1592
liverless1598
dicephalous1808
disomatous1857
1598 Health to Gentlemanly Profession Seruingmen sig. I3v My poore maisterlesse, and Lyuerylesse, nay Lyuerlesse and Hartlesse brother in Christ.
1791 ‘Disciple of Nature’ Refl. Dr. Smith's Pract. Dis. Debility 44 We should not even have suspected that Eve was created without nerves, or Adam liverless.
1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 543/1 The prosing of an old woman, or the tiresome garrulity of some liverless bachelor.
1829 J. Shipp Mem. Mil. Career I. ix. 121 The mischievous helmsman gives the ship a luff up, which brings the whole weight of the said fat Sodagah's wife upon your liverless side.
1864 C. Clarke Box for Season I. 107 Liverless bachelors, all cayenne pepper, turtle, and Peruvian cyanokaita.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 37 A healthy frog received 0·016 milligramme subcutaneously without any ill effect; while a smaller dose (0·012) killed the liverless one.
1905 Washington Post 31 Dec. (Mag. section) 3/5 Eyewitnesses..have seen a liverless shark do just this very thing [sc. take the bait a second time].
1935 Proc. Royal Soc. London 117 441 The rate of fall of blood sugar in..liverless dogs was 0.012 to 0.013%.
2004 J. Denby Billie Morgan viii. 51 Whizz..turns you into a shrivelled-up, desiccated, liverless mummy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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