acute yellow atrophy of the liver

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• acute yellow atrophy — n a severe usu. fatal disorder in which the liver degenerates and is reduced in size as a result of toxic chemicals, infection, or other agents …   Medical dictionary

• acute yellow atrophy — noun : a severe usually fatal disorder in which the liver degenerates and is reduced in size as a result of toxic chemicals, infection, or other agents …   Useful english dictionary

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• Atrophy — Wasting away or diminution. Muscle atrophy is wasting of muscle, decrease in muscle mass. A nerve can also show atrophy. For example, atrophy of the optic nerve diminishes vision. * * * A wasting of tissues, organs, or the entire body, as from… …   Medical dictionary

• necrosis — Pathologic death of one or more cells, or of a portion of tissue or organ, resulting from irreversible damage; earliest irreversible changes are mitochondrial, consisting of swelling and granular calcium deposits seen by …   Medical dictionary

• Rokitansky, Karl, Freiherr von — ▪ Austrian pathologist (baron of ) born Feb. 19, 1804, Königgrätz, Austria died July 23, 1878, Vienna  Austrian pathologist whose endeavours to establish a systematic picture of the sick organism from nearly 100,000 autopsies 30,000 of which he… …   Universalium

• Rokitansky, Karl, baron von — born Feb. 19, 1804, Königgrätz, Austria died July 23, 1878, Vienna Austrian pathologist. He inspired Ignaz Semmelweis to study medicine and supported his use of antiseptic procedures to eliminate puerperal fever. Rokitansky was the first to… …   Universalium

• hydroxyformobenzoylic acid — hy·droxy·for·mo·ben·zo·yl·ic ac·id (hi drok″se for″mo ben″zo ilґik) a crystalline compound sometimes occurring in the urine in acute yellow atrophy of the liver …   Medical dictionary

• syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… …   Medical dictionary

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• Disease — Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the… …   Medical dictionary