hepatitis

Definitions of hepatitis
  1. noun
    inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin
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    type of:
    enfermedad del hígado
    a disease affecting the liver
    enfermedad infecciosa
    a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
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The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill and Elizabeth Sherrill

Holland native Corrie ten Boom had an unremarkable life until Nazi Germany invaded her family's world during World War II. Corrie became a Resistance heroine and survived Hitler's concentration camps in her true life story of faith triumphing over evil.

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