Definition of Hepatic duct

1. Noun. The duct that drains bile from the liver.

Generic synonyms: Canal, Channel, Duct, Epithelial Duct
Group relationships: Liver

Medical Definition of Hepatic duct

1. See: common hepatic duct, right hepatic duct, left hepatic duct. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepatic Duct

hepatectomies
hepatectomized
hepatectomy
hepatic
hepatic adenoma
hepatic air
hepatic amoebiasis
hepatic arteries
hepatic artery
hepatic branches of vagus nerve
hepatic capsulitis
hepatic colic
hepatic coma
hepatic cords
hepatic duct (current term)
hepatic encephalopathy
hepatic failure
hepatic fistula
hepatic flexure
hepatic function impairment
hepatic infantilism
hepatic insufficiency
hepatic intermittent fever
hepatic laminae
hepatic lobe
hepatic lobule
hepatic lymph nodes
hepatic necrosis
hepatic obstruction

Literary usage of Hepatic duct

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The hepatic duct.—Two main trunks of nearly equal size issue from the liver at the transverse fissure, one from the right, the other from the left lobe ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1920)
"French catheter was inserted into the hepatic duct on the proximal end into the duodenum. At the site of the defect (2 centimeters) the tube was covered ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"If the hepatic duct be injected, not only does fill the interlobular ducts, ... 11 inch it joins the hepatic duct, and forms the common bile duct, ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"At its narrow end it opens into a small duct (cystic duct) which passes back and down to join the hepatic duct forming the common bile duct, ..."

5. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham, Arthur Robinson (1914)
"As it descends, the common hepatic duct passes either anterior to or posterior to the right branch of the hepatic artery ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1896)
"The stone could be moved in the hepatic duct a distance of 4 cm. in an almost ... The hepatic duct, having a horizontal direction, thus formed an angle of ..."

7. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"The chief symptoms of obstruction of the hepatic duct are a sensation of ... When the calculus in the hepatic duct or in the liver substance is found in a ..."

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