fatty liver

English

Noun

fatty liver (countable and uncountable, plural fatty livers)

  1. (pathology, uncountable) The abnormal retention of triglycerides within the vacuoles of the liver.
  2. (countable) An individual liver of this kind.

Synonyms

condition

Hypernyms

individual liver

Hyponyms

  • nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL)

Coordinate terms

condition

Derived terms

  • fatty liver disease (FLD)
  • nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
  • nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL)

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