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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, the liver.

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Examples

  • Exuritur sanguis et venae obstruuntur, quibus obstructis prohibetur transitus Chili ad jecur, corrumpitur et in rugitus et flatus vertitur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Cor totum combustum, jecur suffumigatum, pulmo arefactus, ut credam miseram illam animam bis elixam aut combustam, ob maximum ardorem quem patiuntur ob ignem amoris.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Rabie jecur incendente feruntur praecipites, Vopiscus of

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Vernon walked off to his room, dark as one smitten blind: bile tumet jecur: her stroke of neglect hit him there where a blow sends thick obscuration upon eyeballs and brain alike.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • Vernon walked off to his room, dark as one smitten blind: bile tumet jecur: her stroke of neglect hit him there where a blow sends thick obscuration upon eyeballs and brain alike.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • English means, what is one man's meat is another man's poison; and further, he adds, _Ut jecur, ut onus, put ut occiput_, which is as much as to say, that what agrees with one temperament, will be injurious to another.

    Japhet, in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • English means, what is one man's meat is another man's poison; and further, he adds, _Ut jecur, ut onus, put ut occiput_, which is as much as to say, that what agrees with one temperament, will be injurious to another.

    Japhet in Search of a Father Frederick Marryat 1820

  • He is said to have a vulture preying upon his heart, or liver; immortale jecur tondens.

    A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) Jacob Bryant 1759

  • Morbosus renes, vesicam, guttura, vulnam, Intestina, jecur, cumque lyene caput Confortat, variisque Anisum subdita morbis Membra: istud tantum vim leve semen habet.

    unknown title 2009

  • [47] petulanti splene chachinno, and then again, [48] urere bilis jecur, I was much moved to see that abuse which I could not mend.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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