livernoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈlɪv.ər/us/ˈlɪv.ɚ/B2 a large organ in the body that cleans the blood and produces bile, or this organ from an animal used as meat
Examples
- Symptoms of the disease include an enlarged spleen or liver.
- He died of liver failure.
- Just the smell of liver cooking makes me gag.
- It started off as cancer of the liver but it spread to other areas of the body.
- He died of liver cancer.
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Other major organs
- bladder
- cardiothoracic
- endocrine
- gall bladder
- gut
- hepatocellular
- kidney
- nephron
- pancreatic
- sense organ
- splanchnic
- spleen
- splenic
- swim bladder
- tum
- vesica
- viscera
- vital organs
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Organs eaten as meat