hepatize

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To convert by engorgement and effusion into a substance resembling liver: as, a hepatized lung, in pneumonia.
2. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen.
3. Also spelled hepatise.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas.
2. v. To gorge with effused matter, as the lungs.