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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Fibrosis > Liver Cirrhosis
Digestive System Diseases > Liver Diseases > Liver Cirrhosis

Preferred term

Liver Cirrhosis  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cirrhosis, Hepatic
  • Cirrhosis, Liver
  • Hepatic Cirrhosis

Scope note

  • Liver disease in which the normal microcirculation, the gross vascular anatomy, and the hepatic architecture have been variably destroyed and altered with fibrous septa surrounding regenerated or regenerating parenchymal nodules.

History note

  • LIVER CIRRHOSIS, POSTNECROTIC was heading 1963-77

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008103

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