'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]
Words containing 'Hepatic'
- Hepatical,
- Hepatitis,
- Hepatization,
- Hepatize,
- Hepatized,
- Hepatizing,
- hepatitis a,
- Hepatic cinnabar,
- Hepatic colic,
- Hepatic duct,
- Hepatic gas,
- delta hepatitis,
- hepatic artery,
- hepatic coma,
- hepatic lobe,
- hepatic tanager,
- hepatic vein,
- hepatitis a virus,
- hepatitis b,
- hepatitis c,
- hepatitis delta,
- infectious hepatitis,
- serum hepatitis,
- viral hepatitis,
- Hepatic mercurial ore,
- hepatic portal vein