Definition of Hepar

1. n. Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown color, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (&?;).

Definition of Hepar

1. an old name for some sulphurs [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hepar

1. 1. Liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine. It is formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalies (especially. Potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Synonym: hepar sulphuris . 2. Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum . Hepar antimonii, a substance, of a liver-brown colour, obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides, and consisting of sulphantimonites of the alkalies. Synonym: liver of antimony. Origin: L. Hepar, hepatis, the liver, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepar

heorshe
heort-
hep
hep A
hep B
hep C
hep D
hep E
hep cat
hep cats
hep tree
hepadnaviridae
hepadnaviridae infections
hepadnavirus
hepadnaviruses
hepar (current term)
heparan
heparan-sulfate 2-sulfotransferase
heparan N-sulfatase
heparan sulfate
heparan sulfate-N-deacetylase-N-sulfotransferase
heparan sulfate D-glucosaminyl 3-O-sulfotransferase
heparan sulfate proteoglycan
heparan sulfate sulfatase
heparan sulphate
heparanase
heparans
heparin
heparin-glucosamine 3-O-sulfotransferase
heparin antagonists

Literary usage of Hepar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1876)
"He had for a long time been in the constant habit of prescribing hepar, ... Dr. Bryce's very careful observations as to the effect of hepar upon patients ..."

2. Transactions (1882)
"hepar Sulphur in a Case of Goitre. BY AK WRIGHT, MD 1858. ... On looking the case over, with great doubt of a cure, I gave hepar s., and in a month's time I ..."

3. Physiological Materia Medica: Containing All that is Known of the by William H. Burt (1883)
"hepar SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. Sulphide of Calcium. Chemical preparation; finely pulverized Oyster Shells and chemically pure Flowers of Sulphur, equal purl*, ..."

4. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"... of this Mr Magellan faw fome lumps that oils hepar. This is found at Tivoli, near Sometimes it is formed in old privies : 4. ..."

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