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Hepatitis

/ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯tɪs/

Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.

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Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.

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livernoun	(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
hcvnoun	(uncountable, virology, pathology) Initialism of hepatitis C virus. [A virus that causes the disease hepatitis C.]
hepnoun	(informal) hepatitis.
hbvnoun	Abbreviation of hepatitis B virus. [A virus that causes the disease hepatitis B.]
infectionnoun	An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
virusnoun	A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms).
diseasenoun	(medicine) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
viral hepatitis	liver inflammation due to a viral infection.
alcoholic hepatitis	hepatitis (inflammation of the liver) due to excessive intake of alcohol.
autoimmune hepatitis	Autoimmune hepatitis, formerly known as lupoid hepatitis, plasma cell hepatitis, or autoimmune chronic active hepatitis, is a chronic, autoimmune disease of the liver that occurs when the body's immune system attacks liver cells, causing the liver to be inflamed.
toxic hepatitis	—
drug-induced hepatitis	—
liver inflammation	—
infectious hepatitisnoun	an acute but benign form of viral hepatitis caused by an rna virus that does not persist in the blood serum and is usually transmitted by ingesting food or drink that is contaiminated with fecal matter
serum hepatitisnoun	an acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a dna virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids
catarrhal jaundice	—
acute hepatitis	—
chronic hepatitis	—
fulminant hepatitis	—
neonatal hepatitis	Neonatal hepatitis refers to many forms of liver dysfunction that affects fetuses and neonates.