hepatic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the liver.
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acting on the liver, as a medicine.
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liver-colored; dark reddish-brown.
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Botany. belonging or pertaining to the liverworts.
noun
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a medicine acting on the liver.
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a liverwort.
adjective
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of or relating to the liver
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botany of or relating to the liverworts
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having the colour of liver
noun
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obsolete any of various drugs for use in treating diseases of the liver
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a less common name for a liverwort
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of hepatic
1350–1400; Middle English epatik ≪ Latin hēpaticus < Greek hēpatikós. See hepato-, -ic
Example Sentences
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Figure 20.43 Hepatic Portal System The liver receives blood from the normal systemic circulation via the hepatic artery.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Specimens of the Hepatic Tanager from Coahuila in winter might well be either P. f. hepatic or P. f. dextra.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.
M. M. Hepatic inflammation is very liable to terminate in suppuration, and the patient is destroyed by the continuance of a fever with sizy blood, but without night-sweats, or diarrhœa, as in other unopened abscesses.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
Hepatic abscess may follow on an attack of amoebic dysentery, and is produced either by infection through the portal vein, or by direct infection from the adjacent colon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
Hepatic Abscess: Suppurative Hepatitis.—This is a circumscribed collection of pus in the liver tissue.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
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