Hepatic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hepatic
       adj : pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts";
             "hepatic cirrhosis"