Cirrhosis

Cirrhosis (from the Greek kirros - literally means reddish). Initially the term referred exclusively to cirrhosis of the liver, when the latter actually takes on a reddish hue on cross-section (see Cirrhosis of the liver). Later, under the concept of cirrhosis came to be understood all kinds of sclerotic processes regardless of the organ and regardless of the color of the sclerosed organ. Thus, they speak of gastrocirrhosis, of cirrhosis of the pancreas, of the lung, of the kidneys (nephro-cirrhosis), etc. The essence of cirrhosis consists in the more or less diffuse development of dense connective tissue in an organ, which coincides with the concept of sclerosis (see).