Practical Living Advice
For a patient with alcoholic cirrhosis, doing this is the single most important action to stabilize the disease, stop further damage, and improve their long-term survival chances.
What is Abstinence (or "Stopping drinking alcohol")
The Greek root of cirrhosis roughly translates to this.
What is Tawny or Orange-Yellow
The most important animal to BIO 5563
What is the Kangaroo Rat
This twin brother committed fratricide and founded the city of Rome.
What is Romulus
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism states that heavy drinking in men is considered drinking this amount or more of drinks in a sitting.
What is 5 Drinks
This common symptom of severe liver disease is the yellowing of the skin and eyes, caused by a buildup of bilirubin, which the damaged liver can't clear.
What is Jaundice
Spiders are able to articulate their joints using this mechanism.
What is hydraulics.
While safe for many, this common over-the-counter painkiller must be avoided or strictly limited by cirrhotic patients because it can cause severe liver failure.
What is Acetaminophen aka Tylenol aka APAP
This dynamic duo is credited in discovering CRISPR Cas9 Gene Editing. (Will give credit for any of the two)
What is Nobel Laureates Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna
When cirrhosis causes high blood pressure in the liver, fluid leaks out and pools in the belly, leading to this symptom of massive abdominal swelling.
In 49 BC, Julius Caesar led the 13th Legion across this river, triggering a Roman Civil War.
What is the Rubicon River
These abnormal, tiny, red, spider-like blood vessels that appear on the chest and arms are a common visible sign of advanced cirrhosis.
What is Spider Angiomas
This man is credited with first identifying liver cirrhosis.
What is Hippocrates (albeit did not have a name for it).
What is René Laennec, a French physician, first identified and named cirrhosis in 1819 .
The final remnant of the Roman Empire (Eastern/Byzantium) fell when Constantinople was conquered in this year.
What is 1453