Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis , noun
[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} orange-colored: compare French cirrhose. So called from the yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when cut.]
(Medicine) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.