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Liver King
Liver King (Brian Johnson, born 1977) is an American fitness influencer who ate raw organ meat and promoted "ancestral living" and Ancestral Supplements; exposed in 2022 for $11,000/month steroid use, sued, and arrested in 2025.
Liver regeneration
Liver regeneration: the liver's restoration of mass and function after partial hepatectomy or injury, mainly by hepatocyte compensatory hyperplasia rather than regrowth of removed lobes; driven by portal flow, shear stress, cytokines, and growth factors, with LPC-driven regeneration as a secondary mode in severe injury.
Liver resection
Liver resection, also called hepatectomy, is surgery that removes part or all of the liver, mainly to treat primary and metastatic liver tumors; up to 80% can be removed from a healthy liver.
Liver shot
Liver shot: strike to the right lower ribcage targeting the liver, also called liver punch or liver blow. Used in boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA; ends fights via vagus nerve response, not concussion; famous finish Hopkins–De La Hoya 2004.
Liver spot
Liver spot (age spot, solar lentigo): a flat tan-to-brown patch on sun-exposed skin caused by clumped melanin from UV exposure, common after age 50, unrelated to the liver, benign but needing evaluation if changed.
Liver stiffness measurement
Liver stiffness measurement (LSM) is a noninvasive elastography technique, using ultrasound or MRI, that measures liver stiffness in kilopascals to estimate fibrosis in chronic liver disease without a biopsy.
Liver transplantation
Liver transplantation: surgical replacement of a diseased liver with deceased- or living-donor whole or partial graft. Key facts: MELD 3.0 allocation since July 2023, 11,458 US transplants in 2024, 81.8% five-year survival, machine perfusion expanding usable organs.
Liver X receptor
Liver X receptors (LXRα/NR1H3, LXRβ/NR1H2) are oxysterol-activated nuclear receptors, RXR heterodimer partners, that regulate cholesterol efflux, bile acid synthesis, lipogenesis, and inflammation.
Liver-Eating Johnson
Liver-Eating Johnson, born John Garrison (c. 1824–1900), also called John Johnston and Jeremiah Johnson, was an American mountain man and Montana lawman famed in legend for eating Crow livers, a story popularized by Crow Killer and the film Jeremiah Johnson but unsupported by evidence.
Liver-resident natural killer cell
Liver-resident natural killer cells (lrNK, liver ILC1s) are NK cells fixed in hepatic sinusoids; in mice CD49a+DX5−, in humans CD56brightCD69+CXCR6+, with memory-like and immunoregulatory functions distinct from circulating cNK cells.
LiveRamp Holdings
LiveRamp Holdings is a San Francisco-based data collaboration and identity resolution company known for RampID and AbiliTec; Publicis Groupe agreed to acquire it in 2026 for $2.167 billion.
Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich
Liverij Osipovich Darkshevich (Ливерий Осипович Даркшевич, 1858–1925) was a Russian neurologist who identified the midbrain's nucleus of Darkshevich and founded the Kazan school of neurology.
LIVERMORE trial
LIVERMORE (NCT05186116), LIVing Donor livEr tRansplant Modena cOloRectal mEtastasis, is a single-arm open-label Italian trial at AOU Modena testing living donor liver transplantation for unresectable colorectal liver metastases, 25 participants, 5-year OS and DFS endpoints.
Livermore, California
Livermore, California: Alameda County city founded 1869, easternmost in the Bay Area, population 87,955 (2020). Known for its 50-plus wineries, one of California's oldest wine regions, and Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories.
Livermorium
Livermorium (formerly ununhexium, Uuh) is a synthetic chemical element with atomic number 116, first made in Dubna, Russia, in 2000 and named for Livermore, California.
Liverpool
Liverpool: city and metropolitan borough on the Mersey estuary, North West England. Founded 1207; major Atlantic port, leading slave trade port 1750–1807; population 486,100 (2021); UNESCO World Heritage site 2004, delisted 2021.
Liverpool (album)
Liverpool is the second and final studio album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released 20 October 1986 on ZTT. Produced by Steve Lipson with Trevor Horn executive-producing at a cost near £840,000, it peaked at UK No. 5 and its failure ended the band.
Liverpool (department store)
Liverpool is a Mexican department store chain founded in 1847, selling apparel, home goods, furniture, and cosmetics, which took a 49.9% stake in Nordstrom in 2025.
Liverpool & Inner West Line
The Liverpool & Inner West Line (T3) is a Sydney Trains suburban service running from Liverpool to the City Circle via Regents Park and Lidcombe.
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), opened in England in 1830, was the world's first inter-city passenger railway and the first to rely exclusively on steam locomotives.
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Cathedral, the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool, is Britain's largest Anglican cathedral, built on St James' Mount between 1904 and 1978 to Giles Gilbert Scott's Gothic design.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks was Liverpool's municipal water undertaking from 1847, which built the Rivington reservoirs and the Vyrnwy dam, Britain's first large masonry dam, completed in 1888.
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool F.C., English Premier League club founded in 1892 by John Houlding at Anfield after a split from Everton; record 20 league titles, 6 European Cups, 52 major honours, record £703m revenue, owned by FSG.
Liverpool F.C. Reserves and Academy
Liverpool F.C. Reserves and Academy: the club's youth structure at Kirkby, from pre-Academy U6s to U21s in Premier League 2, category one EPPP status, directed by Alex Inglethorpe with Rob Page (U21s) and Simon Wiles (U18s) as 2025/26 head coaches.
Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry
The Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry is an association football rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester City, first played in 1893 and now a defining Premier League matchup.
Liverpool F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry
Liverpool F.C.–Manchester United F.C. rivalry, the North West derby: England's two most successful clubs, tied on 20 league titles, rooted in 19th-century industrial competition and the Manchester Ship Canal, first met in 1894.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport
Liverpool John Lennon Airport, formerly Speke Airport, is an international airport serving Liverpool, England, opened in the 1930s and renamed after John Lennon in 2001.
Liverpool Lime Street railway station
Liverpool Lime Street railway station, opened in August 1836, is Liverpool's mainline railway terminus and one of Britain's oldest, with Grade II listed Victorian trainsheds.
Liverpool Magistrates' Court
Liverpool Magistrates' Court is the magistrates' court for Liverpool, England, now sitting as Liverpool & Knowsley Magistrates' Court at the QEII Law Courts, Derby Square (court code 1730). Its 1857-9 Dale Street courthouse by John Weightman is Grade II listed beside the Grade II Main Bridewell.
Liverpool Player of the Season Awards
Liverpool Player of the Season Awards: official LFC end-of-season honours, also called Standard Chartered Men's Player of the Season, decided by fan vote on Liverpoolfc.com. Mohamed Salah has won four times; Dominik Szoboszlai is the 2025-26 winner.