or  hob*nailed liver  n 1  :  the liver as it appears in one form of cirrhosis in which it is shrunken and hard and covered with small projecting nodules  2  :  the cirrhosis associated with hobnail liver  :  LAENNEC'S CIRRHOSIS .
 
 
 
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