Hepatic /(?)/
He·pat·ic
Hepatic
a.
- Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
- Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
- Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts. (Bot.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Hepatic duct
- 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
- sulphureted hydrogen gas.
- Hepatic mercurial ore
- See under Cinnabar.