- alcoholic cirrhosis
- cirrhosis in the alcoholic, attributed by some to associated nutritional deficiency and by others to chronic excessive exposure to alcohol as a hepatotoxin.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
alcoholic cirrhosis
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