hepatic
[hi'pætik]
a. 脏, 治病, 脏

[医]



hepatic
[ noun ]

1. any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses

<noun.plant>

[ adj ]

1. pertaining to or affecting the liver

<adj.pert>
hepatic ducts
hepatic cirrhosis

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.

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

3. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called
Hepatic[ae], 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}.