Hepatic
(He*pat"ic) a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. fr. the liver; akin to L. jecur, Skr. yakt: cf. F. hépatique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, or scale mosses and liverworts.
Hepatic duct (Anat.),
any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from
the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive. — Hepatic gas (Old Chem.),
sulphureted hydrogen gas. — Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.
Hepatica
(||He*pat"i*ca) n.; pl. Hepaticæ [NL. See Hepatic. So called in allusion to the shape of the
lobed leaves or fronds.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
2. (bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; — called
also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.
Hepatical
(He*pat"ic*al), a. Hepatic. [R.]
Hepatite
(Hep"a*tite) n. [L. hepatitis an unknown precious stone, Gr. fr. the liver: cf. F. hépatite.] (Min.)
A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.
Hepatitis
(||Hep`a*ti"tis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. liver + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the liver.
Hepatization
(Hep`a*ti*za"tion) n.
1. (Chem.) Impregnating with sulphureted hydrogen gas. [Obs.]
2. [Cf. F. hépatisation.] (Med.) Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs
when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.
Hepatize
(Hep"a*tize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hepatized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Hepatizing ] [Gr. to be like the
liver, to be liver-colored, fr. the liver: cf. E. hepatite, and (for sense 2) F. hépatiser.]
1. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.
On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water.
Barrow. 2. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
Hepatocele
(He*pat"o*cele) n. [Gr. the liver + tumor.] (Med.) Hernia of the liver.
Hepatocystic
(Hep`a*to*cys"tic) a. [Hepatic + cystic.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the liver and gall
bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.
Hepatogastric
(Hep`a*to*gas"tric) a. [Hepatic + gastric.] (Anat.) See Gastrohepatic.
Hepatogenic
(Hep`a*to*gen"ic Hep`a*tog"e*nous) a. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + root of gi`gnesthai
to be born] (Med.) Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.
Hepatology
(Hep`a*tol"o*gy) n. [Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + -logy.] The science which treats of
the liver; a treatise on the liver.