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Definition of Cancer of the liver
1. Noun. Malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and weakness and bloating and jaundice and upper abdominal discomfort.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cancer Of The Liver
Literary usage of Cancer of the liver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Neoplasms of the Liver—Cancer of the Liver General Statements.—Cancer of the
liver should always make the clinician suspicious of a primary growth in ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1866)
"Cancer of the Liver.—Dr. H. WILLIAMS presented the specimen and read the history
of the case from which it was derived. John McGlincy, aet. ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"It is often impossible to differentiate primary and secondary cancer of the liver
unless the primary seat of the disease is evident, as in tlw case of ..."
4. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1869)
"... in which the cellular elements undergo fatty degeneration and atrophy; but
occasionally we meet cases of cancer of the liver where this retrogression ..."
5. On diseases of the liver by George Budd (1857)
"I.— cancer of the liver—Origin of cancerous tumors of the liver —their growth,
dissemination, and effects—Encysted, ..."
6. Medical diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine. A Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1895)
"Cancer of the Liver.—In cancer of the liver the organ is almost invariably large,
... I have met with two cases of primary cancer of the liver in women not ..."
7. Differential diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"cancer of the liver would explain most of the symptoms, ... The most reasonable
diagnosis, therefore, appears to be cancer of the liver, origin unknown. ..."
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