hobnail liver

English

Noun

hobnail liver (plural hobnail livers)

1. (medicine, archaic) A liver that is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails, resulting from cirrhosis.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hobnail liver”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)