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Hepatic

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

he=pat=ic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Hepatic has 1 sense

hepatic(n = noun.plant) liverwort - any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses; Array

is a kind of bryophyte, nonvascular plant

has particulars: hornwort, leafy liverwort, scale moss, hepatica, marchantia polymorpha

is a member of class hepaticae, class hepaticopsida, hepaticae, hepaticopsida

Adjective Hepatic has 1 sense

hepatic(a = adj.pert) Array - pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts"; "hepatic cirrhosis"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Hepatic, a. [L. hepaticus, Gr. , fr. the liver; akin to L. jecur, Skr. yakt: cf. F. hépatique.].

Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases. [1913 Webster]
Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar. [1913 Webster]
Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, 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.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Hepatic, adj.
1 of or relating to the liver.
2 dark brownish-red; liver-coloured.

Etymology

ME f. L hepaticus f. Gk hepatikos f. hepar -atos liver

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