A liver disease occurring in people who are chronic alcoholics: Approximately twenty per cent of chronic alcoholics develop alcoholic cirrhosis.

Alcoholic cirrhosis is described as a condition of irreversible liver disease as a result of the chronic inflammatory and toxic effects of ethanol on the liver.

The diagnoses of alcoholic cirrhosis are related to the liver's inability to adequately remove waste products from the blood stream and the effects of an increase of blood pressure.