hepatomegaly
- noun
- /ˌhɛpətoʊˈmɛɡəli/
- Specialized
- At age 7 years, he had mild hepatomegaly (4 cm below the costal margin) and failure to thrive (two SD below normal).
- elevated ALT and hepatomegaly
Examples
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The doctor diagnosed her with hepatomegaly after the ultrasound indicated an enlarged liver.
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Clinical examination revealed cyanosis, hepatomegaly, and pretibial oedema.
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Six patients still had hepatomegaly, and one had hepatosplenomegaly.
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Seven patients still had splenomegaly, and two had hepatomegaly.
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A physical examination for hepatomegaly was done by measuring the distance between the upper and lower borders of the liver at the mid-clavicular line using a tape measure.
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There was no apparent correlation between the degree of hepatomegaly and tracer uptake in the liver.
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The patient with Mauriac syndrome had dwarfism, hepatomegaly, and elevated ALT.
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A liver span greater than one standard deviation above the mean liver span for any given age was reported as hepatomegaly (Konus et al., 1998).
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However, all nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors carry the risk of lactic acidosis and severe hepatomegaly.
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At age 5 months, she developed tachypnoea with widespread pulmonary infiltrates, mild anaemia, and marked lymphocytosis (89,000/mL) (table 1), together with persistent hepatomegaly.
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Synonyms
A liver that is larger than normal
Surface Forms
Morphology
hepatomegaly = hepato + megaly
The term is built from specialized medical combining forms ('hepato-' = liver, '-megaly' = enlargement) that are not productive standalone English words for average learners, so the meaning is not derivable from everyday vocabulary.
Etymology
Hepatomegaly comes from two parts: hepato- meaning 'liver', as in hepatitis, and -megaly meaning 'large', like 'mega' in megabyte. So hepatomegaly means a 'large liver', which is why it refers to an abnormal enlargement of the liver.