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Definition of Hepatic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or affecting the liver. "Hepatic cirrhosis"

2. Noun. Any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses.

Definition of Hepatic

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

Definition of Hepatic

1. Noun. Any compound that acts on the liver. ¹

2. Noun. A liverwort (kind of plant) ¹

3. Adjective. Of or relating to the liver. ¹

4. Adjective. Acting on or occurring in the liver. ¹

5. Adjective. Of a deep brownish-red color like that of liver. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hepatic

1. a drug acting on the liver [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hepatic

1. Pertaining to the liver. Origin: L. Hepaticus, Gr. Hepatikos This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepatic

heparinized heparinizes heparinizing heparinlike heparinoid heparinoids heparins heparitin sulfate heparosan N-sulfate D-glucuronosyl 5-epimerase hepars

hepat- hepatatrophia hepatectomies hepatectomized hepatectomy hepatic (current term) 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 hepatic encephalopathy hepatic failure

Literary usage of Hepatic

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 arten/, entering the liver at the transverse fissure with the portal vein and hepatic duct, ramifies with these vessels through the portal ..."

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 American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1879)
"Aloes is a powerful hepatic stimulant. It renders the bile more watery, bin at the same ... Rhubarb is a certain, though not a powerful, hepatic stimulant. ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"We may fairly suppose that a quantity of sugar in solution present in a vacuole, for instance, of the hepatic cell- substance can be, by some action of the ..."

5. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"In another study la toxin B,-induced hepatic tumors id in rats fed a basal diet containing protein supplemented with choline, ne, and vitamin Bi2. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Both the hepatic artery and portal vein divide in the transverse fissure into two ... The hepatic veins are the efficient veins of the liver conveying the ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It is reflected from the transverse fissure as the gastro-hepatic omentum, ... It is closely accompanied by the hepatic artery and duct, and, ..."

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