||Cir*rho"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
? orange-colored: cf. F. cirrhose. So called from the
yellowish appearance which the diseased liver often presents when
cut.] (Med.) A disease of the liver in which it
usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in
consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other
organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease
in the proper substance of the organ.