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Hepatic adj.

Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.

(Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, 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.

Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.

Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hepatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... doctor. He said it was her liver that was affected—he said it was what he called a "hepatic" complaint—I don't know these big words, M'sieu le Baron. Then I bought medicine for her, heaps on heaps of bottles that cost about three hundred francs. But she'd take none of them; she wouldn't have them; ...

— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

Words linked to "Hepatic" : class Hepaticae, Hepaticopsida, nonvascular plant, Marchantia polymorpha, hepatic vein, hepatic coma, hepatic lobe, hepatica, hepatic portal vein, scale moss, bryophyte, Hepaticae, liver, hepatic tanager, hepatic artery, class Hepaticopsida, leafy liverwort