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A physical exam to detect enlarged liver. Your doctor may determine your liver is enlarged by feeling your abdomen during a physical exam. The doctor can estimate the size of your liver by feeling how far it extends below your rib cage. Your doctor may also note the texture of your liver.
Go to your butcher and have a look at the livers they sell: it's quite a big organ. In a person, its kind of the size of a football if you would roll it up as good as you could. Where is your liver: can you feel it? Thanks to my growing metastatic liver cancer, I can... I wish I couldn't... I can feel my tumor growing and being hard right in the middle where my ribs come together (just underneath there). Yet a liver doesn't feel pain: it is the pressure of my liver pushing on my other organs that makes me feeling pain. For normal livers: if you take your right hand finger and go just underneath your right ribs at the side of your body, you are poking in the bottom of your liver (if you don't believe me: poke hard and you will feel a sensation that you are not used to...)