Dictionary
Thesaurus
Reference
Translate
Web
Hepatic - 7 dictionary results
Sponsored Links Hepatitis C Facts
8 Read About A Virus Affecting Your
www.PEGASYS.com
Hepatic
Find the right answers about hepatic
www.Healthline.com

he⋅pat⋅ic

   [hi-pat-ik]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to the liver.
2. acting on the liver, as a medicine.
3. liver-colored; dark reddish-brown.
4. Botany. belonging or pertaining to the liverworts.
–noun
5. a medicine acting on the liver.
6. a liverwort.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME epatik ≪ L hēpaticus < Gk hēpatikós. See hepato-, -ic
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Cite This Source
Sponsored Links Hepatitis C Facts
8 Read About A Virus Affecting Your
www.PEGASYS.com
Hepatic
Find the right answers about hepatic
www.Healthline.com
he·pat·ic     (hĭ-pāt'ĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Of, relating to, or resembling the liver.
  2. Acting on or occurring in the liver.
n.   A drug that acts on the liver.

[Middle English epatic, from Old French hepatique, from Latin hēpaticus, from Greek hēpatikos, from hēpar, hēpat-, liver; see ykw in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
hepatic

adjective
1. pertaining to or affecting the liver; "hepatic ducts"; "hepatic cirrhosis" 

noun
1. any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses [syn: liverwort] 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Cite This Source
hepatic   (hĭ-pāt'ĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
Relating to or involving the liver.

The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source

hepatic he·pat·ic (hĭ-pāt'ĭk)
adj.

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling the liver.
  2. Acting on or occurring in the liver.
n.
A drug that acts on the liver.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source

Main Entry: he·pat·ic
Pronunciation: hi-'pat-ik
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, affecting, or associated with the liver hepatic complaint>

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Cite This Source

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source
Share :Share This: digg.comShare This: www.stumbleupon.comShare This: del.icio.usShare This: FacebookShare This: favorites.live.comShare This: www.technorati.comShare This: furl.netShare This: www.myspace.comShare This: www.google.comShare This: myweb2.search.yahoo.comShare This: myjeeves.ask.com
Search another word or see Hepatic on Thesaurus | Reference | Translate
Sponsored Links Hepatitis C Facts
8 Read About A Virus Affecting Your
www.PEGASYS.com
Hepatic
Find the right answers about hepatic
www.Healthline.com