'Hepatic cinnabar' definitions:
Definition of 'Hepatic cinnabar'
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- 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]
Definition of 'Hepatic cinnabar'
From: GCIDE
- Cinnabar \Cin"na*bar\, n. [L. cinnabaris, Gr. ?; prob. of Oriental origin; cf. Per. qinb[=a]r, Hind. shangarf.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Min.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion. [1913 Webster]
- Cinnabar Gr[ae]corum. [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood.
- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire.
- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of a liver-brown color and submetallic luster. [1913 Webster]