Found 2 items, similar to Hepatic.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: hepatic
hepatic
adj : pertaining to or affecting the liver;
“hepatic ducts”;
“hepatic cirrhosis”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Hepatic
Hepatic
\He*pat"ic\, a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the liver;
akin to L. jecur, Skr. yak?t: cf. F. h['e]patique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic
diseases.
[1913 Webster]
2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic
cinnabar.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called
Hepatic[ae], or scale mosses and liverworts.
[1913 Webster]
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. See Illust., under
Digestive.
Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.
Hepatic mercurial ore, or
Hepatic cinnabar. See under
Cinnabar.
[1913 Webster]