In late October 1980, McQueen flew to Ciudad Juárez to have an abdominal tumor on his liver ( which weighed around five pounds ) removed, despite the warnings of his U. S. doctors that the tumor was inoperable and that his heart would not withstand the surgery.

Hobbs, a male liger at the Sierra Safari Zoo in Reno, Nevada, lived to almost 15 years of age before succumbing to liver failure and weighed in at.

By April, the cancer was in her liver and lungs, and she weighed less than eighty pounds.

There he was pegged to the rock floor, covering an area of, where a pair of vultures feasted daily on his liver.

A Nobel Prize was awarded to Earl Sutherland in 1971 for discovering the key role of AC-III in human liver, where adrenaline indirectly stimulates AC to mobilize stored energy in the " fight or flight " response.

Following at the Battle of Uhud in 625, it is said that after killing Hamzah ibn Abdu l-Muṭṭalib, his liver was consumed by Hind bint ‘ Utbah ( the wife of Abû Sufyan ibn Harb one of the commanders of the Qurayš army ) who later reportedly converted to Islam and became the mother of Muawiyah I founder of the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate.

Eating an enemy's heart and liver was also claimed to be a feature of both official punishments and private vengeance.

In Anglo-Saxon England, as prescribed in Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England ( also called Læceboc ) ( many of whose recipes were borrowed from Greek medicinal texts ), dill was used in many traditional medicines, including medicines against jaundice, headache, boils, lack of appetite, stomach problems, nausea, liver problems, and much more.

" One of Lenin's challenges was distancing materialism, as a viable philosophical outlook, from the " vulgar materialism " expressed in the statement " the brain secretes thought in the same way as the liver secretes bile " ( attributed to 18th c. physician Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 1757 – 1808 ); " metaphysical materialism " ( matter composed of immutable particles ); and 19th-century " mechanical materialism " ( matter as random molecules interacting per the laws of mechanics ).

Kaiser Permanente did not change its methods of evaluating whether or not new therapies were too " experimental " to be covered until it was successfully sued twice: once for delaying in vitro fertilization treatments for two years after the courts determined that scientific evidence of efficacy and safety had reached the " reasonable " stage ; and in another case where Kaiser refused to pay for liver transplantation in infants when it had already been shown to be effective in adults, on the basis that use in infants was still " experimental.

Whipple's main research was concerned with anemia and with the physiology and pathology of the liver.

His understanding was that venous blood was generated in the liver, from where it was distributed and consumed by all organs of the body.

The blood was then regenerated in either the liver or the heart, completing the cycle.

The liver and kidneys could be grilled directly over a fire, but this treatment was unsuitable for the stomach, intestines, or lungs.

As of July 2010, the FDA was considering banning some hydrocodone and oxycodone fixed-combination proprietary prescription drugs — based on the paracetamol content and the widespread occurrence of liver problems.

Locke's medical knowledge was put to the test when Shaftesbury's liver infection became life-threatening.

121 songs, Brahms developed cancer ( sources differ on whether this was of the liver or pancreas ).

The city's symbol of the liver bird was adopted as the club's badge in 1901, although it was not incorporated into the kit until 1955.

Children were given cod liver oil for the same reason but it proved so unpalatable that it was combined with extract of malt to produce " Malt and Cod-Liver Oil.

The enzyme was originally discovered by Mary Bernheim in the liver and was named tyramine oxidase.

The QFracture score was developed in 2009 and is based on age, BMI, smoking status, alcohol use, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, asthma, use of tricyclic antidepressants or corticosteroids, liver disease, and a history of falls in men.

Some liver cord cells contained vacuolated cytoplasm, while others had small amounts of brown hemosiderin pigment.

Bile or gall is a bitter-tasting, dark green to yellowish brown fluid, produced by the liver of most vertebrates, that aids the process of digestion of lipids in the small intestine.

The dog's nose should be black or brown ( liver ) in keeping with the color of the dog.

The eyes should be round and should reflect the dog's color: dark eyes with a black nose, amber eyes with a brown ( liver ) nose.

In addition to white adipose tissue — the major source of leptin — it can also be produced by brown adipose tissue, placenta ( syncytiotrophoblasts ), ovaries, skeletal muscle, stomach ( the lower part of the fundic glands ), mammary epithelial cells, bone marrow, pituitary, and liver.

Black is the most common colour but Flat-coats also come in liver ( dark brown ) and yellow

The famous " stoofvlees " or carbonade flamande, a beef stew with onions and brown beer, used to contain pieces of liver or kidney, to reduce the costs.

For copper alloys, such as bronze, exposure to chlorides leads to green, while sulfur compounds ( such as " liver of sulfur ") tend to brown.

The bird is served with a brown sauce based on the broth obtained by boiling the heart, neck, liver and gizzard, thickened with a little fat from the bird, flour and sour cream.

These are for the height of the dog at the withers to be outside of the standard range, or for the dog to possess either pricked up ears, a liver or brown coloured nose, an overshot or undershot jawline or to have brindle markings.

The color can be a dark brown, correctly referred to in English as " liver " ( incorrectly as " chocolate " or " chestnut "), black ( although any area of black is cause for disqualification in American Kennel Club sanctioned shows ), or either liver and white or black and white.

The prevailing color is liver and white, sometimes red and white or black and white, and sometimes deep brown, or black on the face and breast, with a tan spot over each eye.

The breed has the greying gene ( located on the G locus ) which is a dominant trait, causing the coat colour to change from their birth colours of black ( in blue ) or dark brown ( in sandy and liver ) to a silvery ( for blue ) or mauve ( for liver and sandy ) colour on their bodies with a lighter coloured topknot and legs.

The colours themselves in the breed consist of black, liver with brown pigmentation, red with black or brown pigmentation, golden with black or brown pigmentation, sable, silver, ash, black and tan, liver and tan, blue roan, liver roan, orange roan with black or brown pigmentation, lemon roan with black or brown pigmentation, black and white ticked, liver and white ticked, orange and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation, black and white, liver and white with brown pigmentation, orange and white with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white with black or brown pigmentation.

It is also known as liver opal or leberopal ( German ), due to its color.

A few manufacturers have introduced beef and turkey varieties and color the loaf to retain the traditional coloration derived from the original pork liver base.

As the levels of billirubin ( a byproduct of red blood cell lysis ) continue to increase, the visible mucous membranes will become yellow in color ( icterus ) due to the failure of the liver to metabolise the excess bilirubin.

Oral tradition in the Bonavista Bay area maintains that seal oil would give a purer red color, while cod liver oil would give a “ foxy ” color, browner in hue.

Commonly the head is a solid or nearly solid color and the body is speckled or " ticked " with liver and white, sometimes with large patches of solid color called " saddles ".

The American Brittany Standard does specify an acceptable tri-colour of liver, orange, and white with very specific color placement which is also acceptable in the show ring.

The most common physical indications of cholangiocarcinoma are abnormal liver function tests, jaundice ( yellowing of the eyes and skin occurring when bile ducts are blocked by tumor ), abdominal pain ( 30 %– 50 %), generalized itching ( 66 %), weight loss ( 30 %– 50 %), fever ( up to 20 %), and changes in stool or urine color.

A liver chestnut is the same genetically as a regular chestnut, but the shade is a dark brown rather than the reddish or rust color more typical of chestnut.

White Shepherds were once blamed for color dilution or paling for the entire breed because the recessive e allele of the MC1R ( E ) gene locus masks expression of alleles at other gene loci that actually do code for lighter ( often termed as diluted or pale ) colors of silver, black and tan or liver.

As it is traditionally made of stock left over from the making of sausages like liverwurst, boiled with flour ( and sometimes blood, which turns the color from white to black ) and bacon and mainly other various cuts of the animal like liver, kidney and lungs, all of which are cooked, ground, then cooked again with flour or oatmeal and a special spice mix (" rommelkruid ") consisting of liquorice, sugar, anis, cinnamon, clove, white pepper, mace, ginger powder and sandalwood, and finally poured into a bowl and cooled off to achieve the form of a loaf. Products for the broad consumer market are specially made of a planned portion of the slaughtered swine ( blood, fat, minor muscle meat and sometimes intestines like liver or stomach.

Haflingers are always chestnut in color, and come in shades ranging from a light gold to a rich golden chestnut or liver hue.