What's the difference between liver and river?

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%.

River


Definition:

  • (n.) One who rives or splits.
  • (n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
  • (n.) Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
  • (v. i.) To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (4) Infection level increased sharply in the age-group 6-10 years old among people residing far from the rivers.
  • (5) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
  • (6) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
  • (7) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
  • (8) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (9) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
  • (10) Comparatively the virus strength sinks more slowly at 4 degrees C in the more mineralized river water (figure 2).
  • (11) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (12) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
  • (13) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
  • (14) Expect growing localised tensions around specific watersheds between one ethnic group and another, between farmers and cities, and so forth, he warns: “Rather than India versus Pakistan, it’s Karnataka versus Tamil Nadu over the allocation of a river that is shared between those two states.” The Water Stress Index , produced by UK risk analysis firm Maplecroft, provides an indication where water-related conflicts might be most likely to occur.
  • (15) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
  • (16) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
  • (17) Larval populations from the three rivers were genetically distinct.
  • (18) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
  • (19) This polymorphism enabled us to differentiate a Hudson River population from that encountered in the Maine rivers.
  • (20) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.