What's the difference between lier and liver?

Lier


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A questionnaire was sent to 454 employees at Lier Sykehus, a mental hospital near Oslo.
  • (2) The present study which was performed by self-administered questionnaires, showed that most of the health personel at Lier sykehus, a mental hospital near Oslo, were willing to and interested in doing active preventive work.

Liver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, lives.
  • (n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
  • (n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
  • (n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
  • (n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
  • (2) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
  • (3) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
  • (4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
  • (5) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
  • (6) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
  • (7) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
  • (8) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
  • (9) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
  • (10) The effect of 4,4'-methylene bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA), 4,4'-methylene dianiline (MDA) and 4,4'-sulphonyldianiline (Dapsone) in vivo on xenobiotic biotransformation in male rat liver was studied.
  • (11) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
  • (12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
  • (13) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
  • (14) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
  • (15) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
  • (16) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
  • (17) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (18) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
  • (19) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (20) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.