Common Disorders of the Canine Liver. Vessel Abnormalities: In young dogs, one of the most common liver disorders is a birth defect called congenital portosystemic shunt. In these cases, a blood vessel is present that bypasses the liver, causing a buildup of toxins that the liver would normally take care of.
Chiastic structure, or chiastic pattern, is a literary technique in narrative motifs and other textual passages. An example of chiastic structure would be two ideas, A and B, together with variants A' and B', being presented as A,B,B',A'.
1. (Geological Science) (of sedimentary rock, etc) composed of fragments of pre-existing rock that have been transported some distance from their points of origin. 2. (Biology) biology dividing into parts: a clastic cell. 3. (Medicine) able to be dismantled for study or observation: a clastic model of the brain.