hobnail liver

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A shrunken liver, hard, and covered with hobnail-like projections (nodules), resulting from cirrhosis. archaic
    — let the teacher show the relation between intemperance, crime, and immorality, and how intemperance results from imitation, habit, disease, and poverty, rather than spend her time in endeavoring to detail the dire effects of alcohol upon every tissue of the body, and to picture upon the child's mind what a drunkard's stomach looks like, or what a hob-nail liver is.

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