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Your liver's way of filing a complaint it really hoped you'd never read.
means Inflammation of the liver, caused by viruses, toxins, alcohol, or autoimmune attack, that impairs its ability to filter and process what you take in.
from Built from Greek 'hepar/hepat-' meaning liver, plus the medical suffix '-itis' meaning inflammation — the same suffix that turns tonsils into tonsillitis and joints into arthritis. The Greek root itself is ancient, related to words for the liver's role in digestion, and physicians have used '-itis' as a general tag for inflamed body parts since the 19th century, when medicine was busy naming everything it could see under a microscope.
- literal meaning
- just greek for liver inflammation
- five letters deep
- a through e, each a different virus
- silent operator
- liver has no pain nerves, so it hides
- b and c
- spread by blood, can turn chronic silently