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What disease is caused when liver cells are replaced by useless scar tissue?
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Cirrhosis of the liver involves the replacement of healthy liver cells with scar tissue.
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What is the liver disease caused by drinking heavily for many years?
Cirrhosis is a slow progressing disease of the liver where healthy liver tissue is gradually replaced with scar tissue. The liver can no longer filter toxins like drugs and alcohol.
Disease in plant or animal tissue is caused by?
Saprophytes
What is the medical term meaning Condition in which the liver tissue is destroyed and replaced by scar tissue?
Scar tissue that forms in the liver is called cirrhosis. Technically cirrhosis is not a "disease"; it is a stage of liver malfunction. In fact, it is the final stage after fibrosis. Cirrhosis of the liver is most often caused by alcoholism, but can be caused by other diseases as well.
Is emphysema a respiratory disease?
Yes. It is usually caused by the destruction of lung tissue from smoking.
What is the description of chrones disease?
Crohn's disease is an inflammatory bowel disease. The inflammation caused by Crohn's disease almost always spreads deep into the layers of affected bowel tissue.
What are some uncommunicable disease?
Any disease that is genetic, or caused by damage to tissue is uncommunicable. Examples are hemophilia, cancer, diabetes, heart diseases.
How does the disease affect the tissue?
our tissue is affect the disease
What is gangrenous tissue?
Gangrene is the death and decay of body tissue, often occurring in a limb, caused by insufficient blood supply and usually following an injury or disease.
Is scar fibrosis is a disease?
Scar fibrosis itself is not a disease, but a reactive effect of numerous diseases. It refers to the formation of connective tissue in commonly injured or deformed tissue surface as a reaction to damage or deformation caused by a disease or other. See the link for a better explanation.
What is a sentence for the word useless?
Example sentence - Amanda is more useless than a used tissue.
What causes peyronie s disease?
Peyronies disease is caused by the scar tissue of the private male part to bend. It can be very severe in some cases and rather disgusting depending on the severity of the disease.
How does the disease the tissue?
it can damage our tissue
