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# liver

«liver» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large organ in your body, under your ribs on the right…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a liver, livers; liver — uncountable as food)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The liver is a large organ in your body, under your ribs on the right, that cleans the blood, stores energy and helps digest food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#m1)

2) Liver is the liver of an animal eaten as food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#m2)

3) A liver (rare) is a person who lives in a certain way: «a clean liver». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the human body, the liver is the largest organ inside the body; it removes harmful things from the blood, makes bile to help digest fat, and stores sugar for energy. In everyday life some people eat liver and onions or liver pâté. Phrases: «liver and onions», «liver disease», «chicken liver».

### examples

- The liver is under your right ribs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#x1)
- Your liver cleans your blood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#x2)
- The liver makes bile to help digest fat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#x3)
- Grandpa likes liver and onions for dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#x4)
- The liver is the biggest organ inside the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#x5)
- Too much alcohol can damage the liver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#x6)
- We dissected a sheep's liver in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#x7)
- The liver stores energy from food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/#x8)

### note

Countable for the organ (a liver); uncountable for the food (some liver). Pronounced LIV-er (like «live» in «I live here»). The skin, not the liver, is the largest organ overall; the liver is the largest inside the body.

### In the corpora

- [Too much paracetamol can seriously damage the liver, even if you feel fine at first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/18-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than/5/)
- [Cod-liver oil contains omega-3 fats and vitamins A and D, and was used in the past to prevent rickets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/8/)
- [Too much vitamin A can be harmful, so cod-liver oil should not be doubled up with other vitamin A supplements.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/22-mums-vitamin-and-cod-liver-oil/9/)
- [The liver makes bile, which helps to digest fat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/33-digestion/17/)
- [Your liver and kidneys remove waste from your body every day; detox teas don't have good evidence behind them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/179-its-natural-so-its-healthy-and-the-miracle-cure/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «liver» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/liver/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.