Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling the liver.
- adj. Acting on or occurring in the liver.
- n. A drug that acts on the liver.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In anatomy and physiology, of or pertaining in any way to the liver.
- In zoology, liver-colored; dark brownish-red; hepaticous: as, the hepatic tanager, Pyranga hepatica.
- n. A medicine acting on the liver.
- n. One of the Hepaticœ.
Wiktionary
- n. Any compound that acts on the liver.
- n. A liverwort (kind of plant)
- adj. Of or relating to the liver.
- adj. Acting on or occurring in the liver.
- adj. Of a deep brownish-red color like that of liver.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the liver
- adj. Resembling the liver in color or in form.
- adj. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, or scale mosses and liverworts.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pertaining to or affecting the liver
- n. any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
Etymologies
- From Late Latin hepaticus, from Ancient Greek ἡπατικός (hēpatikos, "of the liver"), from ἧπαρ (hēpar, "liver"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English epatic, from Old French hepatique, from Latin hēpaticus, from Greek hēpatikos, from hēpar, hēpat-, liver; see yē̆kwr̥ in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This type of hypertension is often referred to as hepatic, portal or renal hypertension.”
“Liver hemangioma is sometimes called hepatic hemangioma or cavernous hemangioma.”
“When viewed under a microscope, the liver is seen as a large network of units called hepatic lobules.”
“When viewed under a microscope, the liver is seen as large network of units called hepatic lobules.”
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration questioned the impact of the company's drug that would treat a condition caused by the buildup of toxic substances that impairs brain function known as hepatic encephalopathy.”
The Wall Street Journal: Penford Ends Higher; Salix Shares Drop
“Medically known as hepatic lipidosis, she narrates, foie gras is a disease marketed as a delicacy.”
“Workers force-feed the ducks so they develop a disease called hepatic lipidosis, Noyes states before cutting to an avian veterinarian, Laurie Siperstein-Cook, who says, A friend of mine refers to pt as hepatic lipidosis on toast.”
“Deal with internal hemorrhaging, ripped esophagi, fungal and bacterial infections, and a brain ailment call hepatic encephalopathy.”
James Cromwell: Put the Knife Down, Foie Gras Ban a Progressive Step
“This bile travels from the liver to the gall bladder—a little sack tucked beneath the liver—through a small tube called the hepatic duct.”
Carbohydrates and gallstones | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
“Mental confusion, the hallmark of a syndrome called hepatic encephalopathy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hepatic’.
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
hysteresis, hyrax, hyoid, hymnody, hymnal, hylicism, hydric, hyalopterous, hyaloid, hyalography, hyaline, hyacinthine and 568 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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mother earth inspired
taxonomy, botany, orchidaceae, arboraceous, bosky, myrtle, magnoliophyta, stamen, gametophyte, hepatic, liverwort, thallus and 7 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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Peacock's Plumage
Cribbed from a collection of unusual words employed by Thomas Love Peacock.
accinge, adhibit, adoperation, agrestic, antiperistatical, antithalian, appetency, assation, atrabilarious, autochthonous, compotatory, conglobated and 40 more...
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Latinate Adjectives
ursine, vulpine, leonine, lupine, porcine, apian, vermian, cygnean, gallinaceous, cetacean, renal, hepatic and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hepatic.
chained_bear "'...makes me fear that this is not an ordinary congestion of the hepatic ducts but some disease acquired in New South Wales.'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 27 Mar 10, 2008