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Liver (LIH-vur)
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Definition: The largest organ in the body. The liver carries out many important functions, such as making bile, changing food into energy, and cleaning alcohol and poisons from the blood.

Related Resources:

Liver Biopsy
A description of the prcedure used to take a liver biopsy.

Liver Transplantation
A short article describing this operation.

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