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Definition of Hepatize
1. v. t. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.
Definition of Hepatize
1. Verb. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas (formerly called ''hepatic gas''). ¹
2. Verb. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hepatize
1. to convert tissue into a firm mass [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepatize
Literary usage of Hepatize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1788)
"... found that he could hepatize many different kinds of air, and that the hepatic
gas was only ..."
2. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"They determine a product dark-coloured from adherent haematin, lax, soft,
incompetent to hepatize the lung-texture. This crasis never becomes developed in ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children by John Forsyth Meigs, William Pepper (1883)
"Sometimes the abscess is multilocular, each of the purulent cavities being
partially separated from its neighbor by a wall of hepatize«! tissue. ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1851)
"... more dense than the healthy tissue, yet softer than hepatize<J lung : in the
neighbourhood of the larger cavity it was much denser than anywhere else, ..."