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cirrhosis Path.|sɪˈrəʊsɪs|
Rarely ciˈrrhose.
[mod.L., f. Gr. κιρρ-ός orange-tawny, after words in -ωσις, -osis; cf. F. cirrhose.]
A name given by Laennec to a disease of the liver, occurring most frequently in spirit-drinkers, and consisting in chronic interstitial hepatitis, with atrophy of the cells and increase of connective tissue. Called also hob-nailed or gin-drinker's liver. Subsequently extended to interstitial inflammation of the kidneys, lungs, and other organs.
The name referred to the presence of yellowish granules, which Laennec supposed to be a deposit of new matter; but these were subsequently shown to be the isolated and bile-tinged acini of the liver itself. In cirrhosis of the other organs there is, of course, no yellow colour.
1839–47Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 188/2 The form of atrophy of the liver..named by Laennec cirrhosis. Ibid. III. 642/1 Patients who die of..cirrhose of the liver. 1854W. Stokes Diseases of Heart 461 That disease to which Dr. Corrigan has [1838] given the name of cirrhosis of the lung. 1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Cirrhosis, name proposed for granulated, or tuberculated kidney. 1872F. Thomas Dis. Women 283 This constitutes a true cirrhosis of the uterus. 1880Med. Temp. Jrnl. Oct. 6 Alcoholic cirrhosis constitutes one species distinct from all the other. |