hepatic

2 definitions found

hepatic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Hepatic \He*pat"ic\, a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the liver;
     akin to L. jecur, Skr. yak?t: cf. F. h['e]patique.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic
        diseases.
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     2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic
        cinnabar.
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     3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called
        Hepatic[ae], or scale mosses and liverworts.
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     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.
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hepatic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  hepatic
      adj 1: pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts";
             "hepatic cirrhosis"
      n 1: any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class
           Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green
           seaweeds or leafy mosses [syn: liverwort, hepatic]