Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hemiliver

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hemiliv-er
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Half of the liver.

Example Sentences

"If this were so, he argues the left hemiliver would be deprived of depatotrophic factors, thought to come principally from the pancreas."
"The main portal scissura (Cantle's line), which divides the liver into left and right hemilivers, lies along a line 75° from the horizontal plane opened to the left of the ex vivo liver, beginning at the IVC."
"In addition, the diseased hemiliver acts as a transitory auxiliary liver that assists the growing FLR in metabolic, synthetic and detoxifying functions for the first and critical week after liver partition."

Etymology

From hemi- + liver.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: hemi

Inflected Forms

hemilivers (plural)

Questions

What does hemiliver mean?: Half of the liver.
Where does hemiliver come from?: From hemi- + liver.

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