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Liver

"Liver" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A large lobed glandular organ in the abdomen of vertebrates that is responsible for detoxification, metabolism, synthesis and storage of various substances.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Liver" by people in this website by year, and whether "Liver" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 728 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 36 publications in 2006
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