Liver Decompensation. The liver is critical to survival. When injury from viral infection, chemical toxicity, ischemia or autoimmune inflammation damage or kill liver cells, the remaining cells can compensate by doubling their metabolic function.
The term case disposition is used within the legal system to describe the resolution or the outcome of any case. A disposition may occur at any time during a court proceeding, though it is subject to the law and also to the rules of civil or criminal procedure.
When a case is set for disposition, typically this means that the case will either be disposed by the defendant pleading guilty to the crime (or the prosecutors dismissing the case) or it will be set for trial. This is a way for the judge to manage his docket by forcing the attorneys to move things along.