cirrhosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κιρρός (kirrhós, “tawny”) and -osis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈɹoʊ.sɪs/

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Noun

cirrhosis (countable and uncountable, plural cirrhoses)

1. (pathology) A chronic disease of the liver caused by damage from toxins (including alcohol), metabolic problems, hepatitis, or nutritional deprivation, characterised by an increase in fibrous tissue and the destruction of liver cells.
2. (by extension) Interstitial inflammation of kidneys, lungs, and other organs.

Derived terms

• cirrhosed
• cirrhotic
• hepatocirrhosis
• Laennec's cirrhosis
• pseudocirrhosis

 

Translations

chronic disease of the liver

• Acehnese: sirosis
• Albanian: cirrozë (sq) f
• Arabic: تَشَمُّع m (tašammuʕ), تَلَيُّف (talayyuf)
• Armenian: ցիռոզ (hy) (cʻiṙoz)
• Azerbaijani: sirroz
• Basque: zirrosi
• Belarusian: цыроз m (cyróz)
• Bengali: সিরোসিস (śirōśiś)
• Bulgarian: цироза f (ciroza)
• Catalan: cirrosi f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肝硬化 (gon¹ ngaang⁶ faa³)

  Hokkien: 肝硬化 (koaⁿ-ngē-hoà)

  Mandarin: 肝硬化 (zh) (gānyìnghuà), 硬化 (zh) (yìnghuà)

• Czech: cirhóza (cs) f
• Danish: skrumpelever c
• Dutch: cirrose (nl) f
• Esperanto: cirozo
• Estonian: sirroos
• Finnish: kirroosi
• French: cirrhose (fr) f
• Galician: cirrose (gl) f
• German: Zirrhose (de) f
• Greek: κίρρωση (el) f (kírrosi)
• Hindi: सिरोसिस (sirosis)
• Hungarian: (of the liver) májzsugor (hu), (more generally) cirrózis (hu), -zsugorodás (hu), -zsugor
• Icelandic: skorpulifur f
• Indonesian: sirosis (id)
• Interlingua: cirrose
• Irish: chiorróis m
• Italian: cirrosi (it) f
• Japanese: 肝硬変 (ja) (かんこうへん, kankōhen), 硬変 (こうへん, kōhen)
• Kazakh: цирроз (sirroz)
• Korean: 간경변 (gan'gyeongbyeon), 경화증 (ko) (gyeonghwajeung)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: cergmûmî

• Kyrgyz: цирроз (tsirroz)
• Latvian: ciroze f
• Lithuanian: cirozė f
• Macedonian: цироза f (ciroza)
• Malay: sirosis
• Malayalam: സിറോസിസ് (siṟōsisŭ)
• Maori: ate ūtonga, mate ate ūtonga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skrumplever m or f

  Nynorsk: skrumplever f

• Odia: ସିରୋସିସ୍ (sirosis)
• Persian: سیروز (siroz)
• Polish: marskość wątroby f
• Portuguese: cirrose f
• Punjabi: ਸਿਰੋਸਿਸ (sirosis)
• Romanian: ciroză (ro) f
• Russian: цирро́з (ru) m (cirróz)
• Scottish Gaelic: caitheamh a' ghrùthain f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: циро́за f

  Roman: ciróza (sh) f

• Slovak: cirhóza (sk) f
• Slovene: ciroza (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: ciroza f

  Upper Sorbian: ciroza f

• Spanish: cirrosis (es) f
• Swedish: cirros (sv) c, skrumplever (sv) c
• Tagalog: sirosis
• Thai: ตับแข็ง (dtàp-kɛ̌ng)
• Turkish: siroz (tr)
• Ukrainian: циро́з m (cyróz)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: цирроз (uz)

  Roman: sirroz (uz)

• Vietnamese: xơ gan
• Waray-Waray: sirosis
• Welsh: sirosis f