liver in English: The large organ inside your body that cleans your blood and helps you use food. (noun)

Translation

The large organ inside your body that cleans your blood and helps you use food.

Word origin

From Old English lifer, an old Germanic name for the organ, shared with Dutch lever and German Leber.

Gender

Plurallivers

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The liver sits on the right side of your body, under the ribs.

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Doctors often check the liver when someone drinks a lot.

onions.

As food, "liver" is uncountable: some liver, not a liver.

body

The whole physical part of a person or animal.

blood

The red liquid that moves round inside the body of a person or animal.

heart

The part inside your body that pushes blood around and keeps you alive.

stomach

The part inside your body where food goes after you eat it. People also use the word for the front of the body below the chest.

doctor

A person whose job is to help sick people get well.

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