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Hepatic adj.

Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.

Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.

(Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.

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.

Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.

Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.

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Etymology of 'Hepatic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hepatic" Quotes from Famous Books

... branching caeca; in the latter of these two genera, the whole surface is, in addition, pitted in transverse lines. The stomach is coated by small, opaque, pulpy, slightly arborescent glands, believed to be hepatic; these are arranged in longitudinal lines, in all the genera, except in Alepas, in which they are transverse and reticulated: the whole stomach is thus coated. There is, also, a coating of excessively delicate, longitudinal and transverse muscles without striae. ...

— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin

Words linked to "Hepatic" : class Hepaticae, Marchantia polymorpha, liverwort, hepatic lobe, Hepaticopsida, hepatic vein, hepatica, liver, Hepaticae, hepatic portal vein, hepatic duct, leafy liverwort, nonvascular plant, scale moss, class Hepaticopsida