alcoholic fatty liver

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A liver with acute and subacute, ie precirrhotic, changes induced by alcohol, a toxin that interferes with fatty acid oxidation, impairing the tricarboxylic acid cycle, resulting in incomplete β-oxidation products from fatty acids. See Alcoholic cirrhosis. Cf Fatty liver of pregnancy.

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