HEPATITIS
\hˌɛpɐtˈa͡ɪtɪs], \hˌɛpɐtˈaɪtɪs], \h_ˌɛ_p_ɐ_t_ˈaɪ_t_ɪ_s]\
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Inflammation of the liver and liver disease involving degenerative or necrotic alterations of hepatocytes.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A disease that causes liver inflammation and liver cancer or failure. it is prevented by a vaccine. It can cause flulike symptons but is spread by Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B. It is found in Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, Dominican Re
By Henry Campbell Black
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It may be seated either in the peritoneal covering, Sero-hepatitis, Hepatitis velamentosa seu externa, Peritonitis hepatica, Perihepatitis, or in the substance of the liver, Hepatitia parenchymatosa, or in both, Puro-hepatitia, and may be acute or chronic. The peculiar symptoms are :-pain in the right hypochondrium, shooting to the back and right shoulder, and increased on pressure; difficulty of lying on the left side; sometimes jaundice with cough, and synocha. Its termination is generally by resolution :-in tropical climates it often runs on to suppuration, Jecoris vomica, Hepatitis apoatematosa, the abscess breaking either externally, or forming a communication with the intestines or chest, or breaking into the cavity of the abdomen. The causes are those of inflammation in general. Heat predisposes to it; hence its greater frequency in hot climates. On dissection of those who have died of it, the liver has been found hard and enlarged; colour of a deep purple; or the membranes have been more or less vascular; or adhesions, or tubercles, or hydatids, or abscesses, or biliary calculi may be met with. The treatment must be bold. Bleeding, general and local, fomentations, blisters, purgatives, and the antiphlogistic regimen. In hot climates especially, a new action must be excited by mercury as early as possible.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland