- 1. a. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases. Source: opted
- 2. a. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar. Source: opted
- 3. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts. Source: opted
- 4. adj. pertaining to or affecting the liver Source: wordnet
- 5. n. any of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/numerous">numerous small green class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/nonvascular">nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses Source: wordnet
- 6. 1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases. 2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar. 3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, 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. See Illust., under Digestive. -- Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas. -- Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar. Source: webster
- 7. Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, orscale mosses and liverworts. Hepatic duct (Anat.), any biliary duct;esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from theliver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., underDigestive.-- Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.-- Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar. Source: adambom
- 8. j:100 a. pertaining to or affecting the liver Source: ecdict
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