'Hepatic' definitions:

Definition of 'hepatic'

From: WordNet
adjective
Pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts"; "hepatic cirrhosis"
noun
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]

Definition of 'Hepatic'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepatic[ae], or scale mosses and liverworts. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]