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Hepatize

Hep"a*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hepatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Hepatizing.] [Gr. ? to be like the liver, to be liver-colored, fr. ?, ?, the liver: cf. E. hepatite, and (for sense 2) F. h['e]patiser.]

1. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.

On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water. --Barrow.

2. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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