enlarged liver
Oversized abdominal organ
An enlarged liver is a liver that has grown beyond its normal size, a condition doctors call hepatomegaly.
The liver may enlarge from various causes—infection, fatty deposits, cancer, or heart failure.
It's typically a symptom of underlying disease rather than a condition itself: The scan revealed an enlarged liver.
- hepatomegalyPathological liver enlargement
- swollenAbnormally enlarged
- jaundiceYellowing from bile pigment
- cirrhosisIrreversible hepatic scarring
- fattyHigh in lipids
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- organ enlargementhepatomegaly, goiter
- fatty liverNAFLD, fibrosis, cirrhosis, ballooning, ALT
- organ failureheart failure, kidney disease, encephalopathy, uremia, hepatomegaly
- symptomsfever, headache, pain, nausea, rash
- illness symptomsfever, chills, aches, headache, cough
- liver diseasecirrhosis, hepatitis, hepatitis B, fibrosis, hepatitis C
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