单词 | bronze liver |
释义 | > as lemmasbronze liver bronze liver n. now rare or disused. dark brown or greyish-black discoloration of the liver, caused by the accumulation of pigment in malaria. ΚΠ 1841 T. Stewardson in Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 1 296 Liver of a natural size, flabby, of a bronze colour, which becomes livid in the small lobe; internally of a uniform light bronze colour.] 1843 Med. News & Libr. 25 96/1 One of the finest specimens he had ever seen of the ‘Bronze Liver’, described by Dr. Stewardson of Philadelphia in his paper in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 1859 Trans. Med. Soc. County of Kings 321 The liver was very dark, between a purple and a chocolate color. This description agrees tolerably well with the so-called ‘bronze liver’ of bilious remittent fever. 1903 J. M. Anders Text-bk. Pract. Med. (ed. 6) 89 The pigment that is found in the form of granular masses in all the hepatic tissue-elements..gives to the organ a bronzed appearance (‘bronze liver’). < as lemmas |
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