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单词 nutmeg liver
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Nutmeg liver


(Med.) a name applied to the liver, when, as the result of heart or lung disease, it undergoes congestion and pigmentation about the central veins of its lobules, giving it an appearance resembling that of a nutmeg.

See also: Nutmeg

nutmeg liver


nutmeg liver

[′nət‚meg ¦liv·ər] (medicine) Chronic passive hyperemia of the liver; the cut surface of the diseased organ resembles the cut surface of a nutmeg.

nutmeg liver


nut·meg liv·'er

chronic passive congestion of the liver, causing accentuation of the lobular pattern with red central and yellow or tan periportal zones.
A descriptive term for a liver with chronic passive congestion, a hepatopathy due to cardiac decompensation and failure, the appearance of which bears a visual verisimilitude to a cut nutmeg; if the congestion is severe, these changes may be accompanied by haemorrhagic necrosis

nutmeg liver

A term used by pathologists to describe the appearance of the cut surface of the liver in conditions of persistent blood congestion, as in failure of the right side of the heart.
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