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Hepatic adj.

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

Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.

(Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.

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.

Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.

Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.

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Etymology of 'Hepatic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... CHAETODERMOMORPHA.—Aplacophora without distinct ventral groove, with single median unisexual gonad, with differentiated hepatic sac, and with cloacal chamber furnished with two bipectinate gills. There are only two genera in this suborder: Chaetoderma, and Limifossor from Alaska. The characters therefore are very uniform. The body is worm-like and cylindrical, the posterior half a little thicker than the anterior; ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various

Words linked to "Hepatic" : hepatic tanager, Hepaticae, nonvascular plant, Marchantia polymorpha, hepatic lobe, hepatic duct, scale moss, liver, hornwort, hepatic coma, liverwort